Original sentence: In 1930, Waterman reported back the the United States about the growth of communism in Vietnam, but his superiors at the State Department discounted his report saying that the "French authorities have been stuffing him with a lot of hot air about the communistic menace
Edited sentence: In 1930, Waterman reported back the United States about the growth of communism in Vietnam, but his superiors at the State Department discounted his report saying that the "French authorities have been stuffing him with a lot of hot air about the communistic menace