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...fratricidal anger among Jews gave little comfort to Defendant Adolf Eichmann. Witness after witness nailed down his direct responsibility for the slaughter. Hungary's Regent-Dictator Admiral Nicholas Horthy was intimidated when a warning from the U.S. to call off Jewish deportation was followed up by a heavy bombing of Budapest, and ordered the deportation stopped. He was overruled by Eichmann. An Eichmann lieutenant proposed that Jews be deported at a rate of 3,000 a day; Eichmann-fearful that the advancing Red army might rob him of his prey-boosted the rate to 12,000 daily...
Only after the mob had grown to 3,000 did the state police finally decide to end the riot with tear gas. In Washington, Bobby Kennedy was white-lipped with anger when he heard the news. Moving swiftly, he deputized some 400 nonmilitary officials-largely deputy marshals and Treasury agents. He sent them by chartered flights into Alabama, under the personal command of Assistant Attorney General Byron ("Whizzer") White. Attorney General Kennedy also set in motion injunctions against the Ku Klux Klan and other prime segregationist groups to prevent them from interfering with peaceful interstate travel...
...Austria. Now began Adrienne's real struggle. The revolutionary regime confiscated most of the family property; her sister, mother and grandmother died under the guillotine. Adrienne herself was saved only by the intervention of U.S. Minister Gouverneur Morris, who warned that her death would anger the U.S. With the help of a later U.S. envoy, James Monroe, Adrienne was finally released from her French prison and promptly set out to join her husband in his Austrian one. She collected her two daughters (her son, George Washington de La Fayette, had been sent to the U.S.), argued approval...
...from Madison Avenue, the New York executives have never generated such excitement as the intellectuals with their cramped half-page of copy, buried on page forty-eight. First to express outrage and suspicion (an interesting combination), was the Hearst chain; and with various shades of anger, the rest of the national press followed suit...
...thank you for allowing my brother, Major General Edwin A. Walker, the attributes of loyalty, capability and courage. You have overdone his anger, but that is minor compared to a man of solid principles...