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.

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

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

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.

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

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

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.