The local police chief reportedly asked Gavaskar to declare to placate the angry crowd. These actions frustrated Madero's later attempts to placate those rebels. This did not placate those unhappy with the Confederate defeat. Resorts attempted to placate the Evangelicals without upsetting traditional bathers. He managed to placate her and manipulated her into luring the Smurfs into a trap. The desire of Quezon to placate both landlords and tenants pleased neither. Hitler apparently proposed modifying the film to placate the generals, but Riefenstahl refused his suggestion. To placate Tamil aspirations, Kamaraj effected some measures. The herb is burnt to invoke, honour and placate the ancestors. To placate Turkey, Peres allegedly downplayed the Armenian genocide. Such awareness will placate the mutual hatreds. Orderlies bury the doll in order to placate Madeleine. His blood was offered to the principal deities in order to please and placate them. Sugawara had originally been enshrined to placate his spirit, not to be worshiped. Jackson wanted sectional peace, and desired to placate Southerners ahead of the 1836 election.