Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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.

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.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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

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

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.