national emergency

national emergency
   British
   the Second World War
   It was indeed that, but much more besides before Russia and the United States were attacked and joined the fray:
    When I find this war, in the ninth month of its second phase, still referred to coyly as the 'national emergency'... (Heffer, 1998, quoting Enoch Powell)

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