| 1 | The current political situation was considered with a view to its causes and its effect. | |
| 2 | Their leaders found it hard enough to govern efficiently even when times were good. | |
| 3 | The old international economic order was struggling to keep up with change before the crisis. | |
| 4 | It fills the first-comer with the force of events; it converts everything into projectiles. | |
| 5 | The Korean war marks the first time when nations have come together in a time of outward peace to resist together a flagrant local aggression. |