Occupation: Journalist Birth: September 16, 1911 Death: September 27, 1983
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency….
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split..
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..
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-peopl….
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 Pac….
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….
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city..
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 ….
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 st….
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochi….
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party..
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..
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me..