My parents would give me or Sandy a couple of coins to drop into his collection box, largess, I always thought, dispensed out of kindness so as not to hurt the feelings of a pooroldman who, from one year to the next, seemed unable to get it through his head that we'd already had a homeland for three generations.
So their identities have not been disclosed, though the lawyer for one of them said that his client is an oldman in poor health who no longer has an official role.