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

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

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 had a profound effect upon me.

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.

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.