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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."
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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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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
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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."
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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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"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
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"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."
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