The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

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

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

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.

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.

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.

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