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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.
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
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.
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
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.
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.
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
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.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
All adventure is now reactionary.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
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