Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Perhaps Moscow, in its need, accented the peril beyond its immediate actuality. Perhaps the Red Army did have great reserves of troops beyond the Volga and in the Caucasus. But the visible fact last week was that Moscow censors permitted the most direct indications yet on record that the Red Army was badly drained, that only the foolhardy would count on the exhaustion of Germany's reserves before Russia's reserves were expended...
This week Rostov is again in peril. Timoshenko is outnumbered in material, even in men on most of his fronts. In great peril was the land of the Volga and the Caucasus, which Timoshenko had called the decisive area of Russia. But the decision had not yet been reached, and the world could easily guess what the stolid, big-boned peasant from Bessarabia was saying to his harried, divided, tired and retreating troops in the ruined fields of the Don. He was saying: "Brothers, our country is in your hands. The outcome depends on us alone...
...resolution adopted by a 2-1 majority reads as follows: that the United States, as a leader among the nations united and fighting for democracy, must accept full partnership in peril; and that, pursuant to this resolve, the United States should at once lower the draft age to 18 years as a measure necessary to winning...
...Great Britain had decided "to open a second front in Europe in 1942." Commissars in the field with the Red Army quoted this unqualified declaration to the troops-and Moscow let its allies know that the Red Army had heard of the promise. Russia in her hour of peril had given the promise of hope to her troops, of warning to London and Washington, that there could be no turning back...