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...Citizen Genet. "Louis Capet," said The National Gazette, "has lost his Caput." In theatres, audiences rose to sing Ca Ira and the Marseillaise. Gentlemen everywhere drank toasts to France. How they welcomed Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the Republic! There was even a rumor that he was bringing the lost Dauphin with him in a trunk. He made the unpardonable error, however, of mistaking the voice of the people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that...
...down, down the great stairway-the thud as her head struck the oak floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale became concious that he, always a staunch Federalist, was owning loyalty to a party discredited. He affixed to his hat the black...
...customary courtesy he repeated the facts that Russia has repudiated international agreements, has confiscated private property has vowed to carry into all other nations the blessings of Communism. To this Senator Borah replies that the new French Republic committed far worse crimes and yet Washington received its ambassador, Citizen Genet. Evidently the Senator has forgotten that Citizen Genet caused the government a great deal of worry and trouble. What is there that a Russian ambassador, with a soviet consular service to aid him, could not do to further the plans of a government pledged to the overthrow of all capitalistic...
...action was contrary to the practice and professions of the United States in previous cases. (a) Genet case.- Message of the president, Dec. 5, 1793; (b) Pussin case.- National Intelligence, Sept. 22, 1849; (c) Crampton case.- Annual Register, 1856, 277; (d) Catacazy case.- Sen. Ex. Doc. 42 Cong. 2d Sess...
...Imputations on the honor of a country by a minister accredited to that country are inconsistent with international comity.- Poussin case in National Intelligence of Sept. 22, 1849. (c) Foreign interference between a people and its government is not to be tolerated.- Genet case in Hildereth's U. S., IV, 415. (d) All ministers accredited to a country must be persona grata to that country.- Wharton's Digest...