Following his defeat, France became President of the Republic International Corporation and also resumed the practice of medicine in Port Deposit.

[7] Although he won some contests, receiving more popular votes than any other candidate including Hoover, few delegates were selected in the primaries and France was heavily defeated at the convention.

Senator to visit Russia after the Russian Revolution, and consistently advocated cordial relations with the Soviet Union.

[8] In 1921 after having been sent to Russia to study economic conditions there, he met with Russian officials, including Lenin, to assist in the release of Marguerite Harrison, an American journalist and convicted spy.

He is what they call a "liberal", for an alliance of the United States plus Russia, plus Germany, in order to save the world from Japan, England, and so on, and so on.

[10]The letter went on to relate that Marguerite Harrison was the sister-in-law of the Governor of Maryland and that Senator France's re-election was put in jeopardy by her incarceration.

France attracted controversy in the United States by accusing Colonel Edward W. Ryan of the American Red Cross of fomenting the Kronstadt rebellion.

[14] Three months after her death in 1927, France married a Russian woman named Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechtereva in Paris.