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...back as the mid-1930s when the U.S. and Britain refused to play the kind of practical politics, inspired by obvious considerations of world order, that would have curbed or destroyed Hitler. They thus brought on themselves the Unnecessary War, as Churchill was to call it. Swept into this vortex, the Americans and British embraced their enemies' slogan of "total war." It was so total that the future beyond the war's end seemed infinitely remote. If war aims were difficult to agree upon, then the formula for ending the war would be total, or unconditional, surrender. Alliances...
...every citizen. He or she must be treated as what they actually are-the fiber and substance from which a free nation derives its strength and purpose." Only when the requirements of security and justice are met will the numbers Ten-Four-Fifty move out of the hurricane vortex...
...news of Vargas' suicide and his defiant farewell (see below) broke over the capital almost as fast as the word of his decision to step down from office. After a moment of stunned incredulity, Rio was caught in a vortex of emotions. Excited groups formed and violence flared. Mobs ripped down anti-Vargas campaign posters, whirled off to attack offices of opposition newspapers, and finally hit out indiscriminately at shop windows and private cars...
...ground relentlessly into one another, until clothes, then lives, fell away. Pilgrims only a few dozen yards away could not hear the cries of the desperate amid their own chants of "Victory to Mother Ganges" and "Long live religion." Eager to reach the confluence, they pressed forward into the vortex...
...vortex of paper plates, pop bottles and fluttering fans, 800 sweating delegates of the Philippines' Nacionalista Party met in Manila Hotel's Fiesta Pavilion one day last week to pick their presidential nominee for next November's election. It was hot and noisy, as a good convention should be. But the suspense did not last long...