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...Peril & Prestige. Visitors from India reported British prestige at its lowest point in recent history. The British can scarcely afford to allow Gandhi to die and become a martyr-the consequences would be unpredictable, and they might be fatal to British rule. As for the fasting Mahatma, he was again demonstrating, along with his appeal to millions of Indians, his shrewd sense of politics and his ability to regain prestige on fruit juice, water and an unquenchable spirit...
...areas well suited for defense. At no point were they slowed down by the necessity of regrouping. The Russians said that they had already killed, wounded or captured nearly a million German and satellite troops since the winter offensives began, and that another 500,000 were in immediate peril...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, gave an official version of Anglo-Russian relations. He emphasized in a speech broadcast to Europe that Germany was again "flaunting the Red peril." He said that there was a "deepseated wish, or more, a determination to work with the Russians in peace and in the war" that German propagandists could not shake. "Let them reflect for a moment," he said, "upon the common man in Britain and Russia and China, on his way of life ... a spontaneous revolt against anything for which the Fascists stand...
Early last week correspondents motored at their peril on a road near Beurát-el-Hsun, between the British Eighth Army and the Afrika Korps' line east of Tripoli. Late in the week the same correspondents, venturing out again, saw signs left by British sappers: "Road free of mines as far as three miles east of Beaur...
During the peril of national emergency, British conservatism muddled through, cooperating with policies it normally would have rejected as dangerously radical. Domestically and externally, the Tory policy was that of the Government, liberal in the extreme, giving birth to advances in British lalior legislation and imcome restriction, and making possible such phenomenal occurrences as the offer of union with France of June...