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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER IX: Concerning a Complex
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Hence from our school histories we have a pro-French complex.

Under its workings we automatically remember every good turn France has done us and automatically forget the evil turns.

Again try the experiment yourself.

How many Americans do you think that you will find who can recall, or who even know when you recall to them the insolent and meddlesome Citizen Genet, envoy of the French Republic, and how Washington requested his recall?
Or the French privateers that a little later, about 1797-98, preyed upon our commerce?
And the hatred of France which many Americans felt and expressed at that time?
How many remember that the King of France, directly our Revolution was over, was more hostile to us than England?
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