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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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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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Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that…
— Hermann Hesse
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Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished…
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I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people…
— Arthur Miller
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You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left…
— Kiran Desai
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At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe…
— E. M. Forster
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