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...There is a Christian morality, there is a human morality, that impose duties and confer rights. These duties and these rights derive from the very nature of man. They may be violated. No mortal has power to suppress them...
July had seen Field Marshal Fedor von Bock set in motion his great 1942 offensive for the conquest of all southern Russia and a mortal blow at the Red army. By early August, advancing with seven-league strides, he was within sight of his first objective...
...Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia's wounds might be mortal. If Russia parried the blow, her defense would call for a new U.S. aerial front based in Siberia, with Japan the target of its attack. But thousands of Japs in the Aleutians barred...
Russia was in mortal peril, and with her the whole Allied cause. It was not so much the German advances, although they were great enough; nor the Russian retreats, although they were foreboding enough. It was the total fashion of retreat and defeat in the valley of the Don that chilled the hearts of Russia's allies and sharpened Moscow's cry for a second front. The warning from the Don was this: It was the Red Army, not the German Army, which had suffered the most in the winter campaign. The Red Army was by no means...
...long debate," he said, "has now reached its final stage. What a remarkable example it has been of the unbridled freedom of our parliamentary institutions in time of war! ... I am in favor of this freedom, which no other country would use or dare to use in times of mortal peril such as those through which we are passing, but the story must not end there, and I make now my appeal...