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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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"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."
"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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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."
"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."
"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
"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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