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...General Sir Archibald Wavell, the U.S. Army's Lieut. General George H. Brett, the Dutch Army's Major General Hein ter Poorten, the U.S. Air Forces' Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, the Allied Navies' Vice Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich huddled in a swirl of blue and khaki staffers. In view through the windows of their three-storied headquarters, the mountains and volcanoes of Java dreamed in the sun and rain...
From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...
...Next Peace. "The battle of the peace will be more difficult to win than the battle of the war. All Europe will be a mad swirl of chaotic forces. . . . Our help must be of such a nature that neither a mad man nor a mad nation will ever again have the opportunity to kill millions of people and destroy tens of billions of dollars of property...
...good neighborhood for him. On East 4th Street, near the river, he was on the coast where the tides of Manhattan's racial mixtures endlessly swirl and boil. Around him were Italians, Poles, Russians, Rumanians, Germans, living in an area of employment agencies, meat markets, secondhand clothing and furniture stores. Around him too were hordes of immigrants who knew no English. Alexander Alexandroff spoke English. French, German, Polish. Italian. Hebrew, Russian, and understood several other languages besides. Soon his neighbors began to use his office as a place to receive mail. Soon they began to rely...
...moon set soon after midnight in a swirl of blowing sand. Everything was ready. The main body had sneaked up in a remarkable rush, from Matruh the day and night before, 60 miles in one haul, and now they settled down on the cold sands for a valuable nap. Mechanized forces had deployed earlier in a sharp curve to the south and west, using the moonlight to dodge scrub and big desert boulders...