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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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"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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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."
"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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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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