Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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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 out of existence.
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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 building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.
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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 strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
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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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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
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