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    As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

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    Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

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    Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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    Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

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    Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

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    In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.

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    In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

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    My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

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    My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

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    Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

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    Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

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    When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.