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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
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Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and…
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it…
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Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that…
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a…
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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of…
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the…
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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
— William Westmoreland
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Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere…
— William L. Shirer
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the…
— Wilfred Burchett
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A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the…
— Christopher Hitchens
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There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of…
— Noam Chomsky
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The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests.…
— Noam Chomsky
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I'm prepared to scour the the Earth for that motherfucker. If Butch goes to Indochina, I want a nigger waiting in a…
— Pulp Fiction
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