  We study a recent proposal to observe the disoriented chiral condensate in
high energy collisions. In order to produce a large fluctuation in pion
probability distribution, a large size of the correlated region is essential.
We study the role of the intrinsic symmetry breaking and suggest that a
negative (mass)^2 of mesons arising from a misaligned vacuum may be a candidate
for such a mechanism. We further point out a possibility to observe
unsuppressed strong $CP$ violation in the disoriented vacuum phase.
