Word: reborning
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...Charles de Gaulle accepted an armful of flowers from a creamy Annamese girl. Stiffly he spoke: "Chère Indochine . . . noble, loyal and intelligent Annamese people. . . . France wants to make the political, economic, social and cultural development of the Indo-Chinese union one of the principal aims of her . . . reborn power and greatness." In effect, the General told the Big Three that the Big Fourth reserved all rights in the Far Eastern colony seized by the Japs before Pearl Harbor. Indo-China-bigger than France, with a population of 23,000,000, rich in rice, rubber, tin and zinc...
...This reborn church . . . would pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. A life, not a creed, would be the test. ... It would be the church of all the people . . . the church of the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant, the high and the low-a true democracy. ... I see all denominational emphasis set aside. I see cooperation, not competition. ... I see the church through its members molding the thought of the world and leading in all great movements. I see it literally establishing the Kingdom...
...France, in a spontaneous burst of struggle and liberation, a nation had been reborn. In Paris last week a much more difficult feat of political obstetrics was taking place-a government for the reborn nation was trying to come to life. Charles de Gaulle had settled down in the old War Ministry on the rue St. Dominique...
...reborn Government was still in a kind of political twilight sleep, and General de Gaulle moved as warily as a sleepwalker. Wrote the Herald Tribune's Sonia Tomara: "De Gaulle has passed hours interviewing members of resistance groups. ... He has noticed that they are not in agreement either among themselves or with the men who have been in exile. ... He knows the country is in ferment, seething with new ideas and aspirations, but also craving peace and order. . . . His conclusion has been that he should not take rash measures...
...shabby, slum-girdled Old Vic, one of the great repertory theaters of the world, was blitzed to atoms. But London was not to be robbed by a bomb of a tradition it cherished, or of the classics it loved. Fortnight ago, in St. Martin's Lane, a reborn Old Vic opened in a blaze of glory, and helped a theater slump, brought on by the robombs, to turn back into a boom...