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Lincoln's appointment of General Fremont to command the Department of the West was most popular ... On Aug. 30, 1861, Fremont, without consulting the President, issued an astonishing, unauthorized order. It declared martial law throughout Missouri, ordered the confiscation of the property of the rebels [and] freed all slaves...
French policy after the war was to conciliate the Sultan. He was invited to Paris, got the red-carpet-and-gold-plate treatment. Diplomat Eirik Labonne was sent out as Resident General. Said Labonne: "Economy first. Politics later." Labonne freed the Istiqlal leaders. His favorite remark: "We must continue the dialogue...
...year on the WPA Federal Art Project freed De Kooning from commercial work, made him resolve to paint fulltime. "People have helped me, and I more or less made out. You don't really go hungry -that's the funny thing." Married to an art critic, he now teaches at the Yale School of the Fine Arts a day and a half a week, paints in his Manhattan studio the other days. He is quite unimpressed by the fame his paintings have begun to gain. "Nothing is positive about art," he says, "except that it is a word...
...remember that I must not grow lax, and I pray for the union of all Rumanians; I pray that through my suffering I may be the subterranean mine which blows up the wall of division between Rumanians, so that all Rumanians shall be brothers, and the church shall be freed promptly and completely...
...boss, Dr. Aristid V. Grosse, says his workers are not interested either in weapons or tools. Still, he admitted last week, the byproduct torches will be tremendously useful in industry and other ways, e.g., they might cut through to people trapped in disasters who otherwise could not have been freed in time...