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.

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.

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.

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 had a profound effect upon me.