Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's to 1942. . . . Here's to a year of toil ... a year of struggle and peril.. . and a long step forward to victory...
...Rector Welles asked God's pardon for past shortcomings, asked power for the task of victory, asked for peace by God's help. He preached the "sin of international irresponsibility": "We have passed by on the other side when we have seen other nations in need or peril, or we have given them aid at the end of a 3,000-mile pole, fearful of involving ourselves in danger...
...Supreme Command's first responsibility to the Allies would be to repair the Malayan damage and save Singapore. General Pownall's first responsibility to the Supreme Command was to describe Malaya's peril, with which he had had brief but concentrated acquaintance, and to recommend steps to be taken. The steps would have to be taken in haste, for the situation as he described it was alarming: on the west coast the Japanese were within 270 miles of Singapore, on the east coast within 175 miles...
...fate of Kuala Lumpur, gateway to Singapore and rubber capital of the world, remained in doubt. Though it obviously was in grave peril from the Japanese thrust down from the Slim River, available reports implied that it was still in British hands...
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