Word: rebirth
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...Rebirth. One hundred and twenty-three years later, Woodrow Wilson brought about the resurrection of Poland. Out of the wreck of the central powers and the Russian Empire, new states were created, Poland and the Baltic States among them. Almost at once the Poles found themselves in a new war with the Russians. Marshal Pilsudski led the Polish Army to Kiev to support Hetman Petlura's attempt to carve out an independent Ukraine. The infant Red Army drove out Petlura, chased Pilsudski to the gates of Warsaw. There, General Maxime Weygand of France, in collaboration with the Polish general...
...Moscow the Great Powers had taken thought for Austria, decreed her rebirth. Prospects for Austrians were brighter than at any time since the little Republic was proclaimed 25 years ago this week-Nov. 12, 1918. Beside the Danube, there was a quickening. Along Vienna's Ringstrasse and down the crowded Kärntnerstrasse impudent anti-Nazi slogans appeared. The Viennese smiled again and the burden of the bombed-out German guests from the north seemed lighter. There were new jokes and new decrees by Himmler, prescribing death for convicted jokesmiths...
...Rebirth at South Hadley. With Desjardins dead and his abbey reported restored to the Cistercian monks (who had sold it in the early 1900s), Mount Holyoke's crisp, French-fluent Professor Helen Elizabeth Patch last year suggested that her old Sorbonne master, Gustave Cohen, and fellow refugees of New York's Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes might enjoy some summer days at her college...
...moment the true meaning of this war." Our leaders are "men of local minds." Thus, our war is "not even a war to save civilization. It is only a war to save European civilization"-and it is to India, China, the Far East that America must look for its rebirth...
...keynote of President Avila Camacho's speech when he took office in 1940: "Each new epoch demands a rebirth of ideas. The clamor of the entire republic now demands the national consolidation of our social conquests. It demands an era of construction, of abundant life, of economic expansion...