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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.