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...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...
...successor, the Aurora, became chief begetters of what Author Faÿ calls "the second American Revolution . . . that broke Federalism and the English alliance." After the Revolutionary War the Federalists, with Washington as their dignified figurehead, grew cooler & cooler to France, wanted a treaty with England. They overrode Ambassador Genet's dangerous popularity with the U. S. crowd, forced his retirement. But when John Jay brought back from England his famed pusillanimous treaty, even Washington kept the text dark till he could be sure of getting it through Congress. Benny Bache spilled the beans: he got a copy...
...tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...
...Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal for his country over the grim neutrality of George Washington's Cabinet, thereby causing his downfall as a diplomat and prompting the passage of the Logan Act to prevent, under penalties, U. S. citizens...
Died. Louis Franklin Genet, 82, grandson of Edmond Charles ("Citizen") Genet (first Minister sent to the U.S. by the French Republic), who described President Washington as "a weak old man under British influence"; at Leonia, N.J. Mr. Genet, able lumber dealer, retired 30 years...