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Description and Holding Information
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U.S., French Spoliation Claims, (background & data), n.d.
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French spoliation claims: n.a., 35p, n.p., n.d. (1912?) (Lacks TOC & index. In 1912, as it had been doing for over a century, Congress was
reconsidering the matter of compensation to Americans for depredations committed by France on American commerce in the last decade of the 1700s. Earlier
American administrations had chosen to overlook the French actions for reasons of state; trading off the claims of U.S. citizens against a French
counterclaim that the U.S. had failed to observe the U.S./French Treaty of 1778. But the heirs to the original claimants wouldn’t let the issue die, and Congress
was generally sympathetic. Presidents far removed from those times found it necessary to veto repeated compensatory actions by Congress as being
unjustified. Veto messages by three presidents were reprinted in 1912, possibly to help nip in the bud a renewal of the issue. {See LLMC Number 09954) The
present anonymously-issued text, which provides a wealth of details regarding the nature of the claims and the identity of the claimants seems also
to be related.)
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Title:
French spoliation claims.
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OCLC Number:
878129234
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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