Salutations, gentlefolk,
Mr. Siano mentioned sanctions against 'collaborators with the British during the Revolution'. The turth, however, is even stranger.
Many Tories - King George III's partisans - had their property (including a good chunk of downtown Philly) confiscated during the revolution, and sold to finance the Continental war effort. In the Treaty of Paris (the US copy is in the American Philosophical Society library on 5th St) we promised to compensate them. Congress, however, never appropriated the money for this.
Foward two hundred years or so, and in the Helms-somebody Act we insist that the Cubans must pay up for what they nationalized in '61. Of course the United Empire Loyalists (think Daughters of the American Revolution, turned inside out) have been keeping close track of the amounts due their ancestors, plus interest.
Will a future Film Festival see a remake of "Passport to Pimlico" set in our neighborhood - but this time a documentary ?
Yours, John Desmond
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