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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other ejected diplomats: in 1793, French Minister Edmond Charles Genet, because he had been appealing to the American people to upset President Washington's neutrality laws; in 1888, British Ambassador Lionel Sackville-West, after publication of a letter he wrote to a U.S. citizen advising him to vote for the re-election of President Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hot & Cold Brush-Offs | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Writer Janet Flanner, who as "Genet" filed some of the best European dispatches of the last decade, has no need to be overmodest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1942 | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...moribund, and (by Revolutionary standards) decaying nations of Europe was required to stop the French Revolution. Before that time, the revolutionary armies in the name of the new order overran the Low Countries, invaded Egypt, threatened to invade England. Its fifth columns operated even in the U. S. (Citizens Genet and his Jeffersonian friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea-Green Monster | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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