> >>> America: The Good Neighbor.
> >>>
> >>> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
> >>>
> >>> recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from
> >>>
> >>> Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television
> >>>
> >>> commentator. What follows is the full text of his
> >>>
> >>> trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
> >>>
> >>> Record:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
> >>>
> >>> Americans as the most generous and possibly the
> >>>
> >>> least appreciated people on all the earth.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and
> >>>
> >>> Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
> >>>
> >>> Americans who poured in billions of dollars and
> >>>
> >>> forgave other billions in debts. None of these
> >>>
> >>> countries is today paying even the interest on its
> >>>
> >>> remaining debts to the United States.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,
> >>>
> >>> it was the Americans who propped it up, and their
> >>>
> >>> reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
> >>>
> >>> streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> When
earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
> >>>
> >>> United States that hurries in to help. This spring,
> >>>
> >>> 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.
> >>>
> >>> Nobody helped.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
> >>>
> >>> billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
> >>>
> >>> newspapers in those countries are writing about the
> >>>
> >>> decadent, warmongering Americans.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to see just one of those countries that
> >>>
> >>> is gloating over the erosion of the United States
> >>>
> >>> dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country
> >>>
> >>> in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo
> >>>
> >>> Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
> >>>
> >>> If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
> >>>
> >>> International lines except Russia fly American
> >>>
> >>> Planes?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
> >>>
> >>> a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
> >>>
> >>> technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about
> >>>
> >>> German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> You talk about American technocracy, and you find
> >>>
> >>> men on the moon - not once, but several times -
> >>>
> >>> and safely home again.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
> >>>
> >>> right in the store window for everybody to look at .
> >>>
> >>> Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.
> >>>
> >>> They are here on our streets, and most of them,
> >>>
> >>> unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting
> >>>
> >>> American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> When the railways of France, Germany and India
> >>>
> >>> were breaking down through age, it was the Americans
> >>>
> >>> who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and
> >>>
> >>> the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them
> >>>
> >>> an old caboose. Both are still broke.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
> >>>
> >>> to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name
> >>>
> >>> me even one time when someone else raced to the
> >>>
> >>> Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside
> >>>
> >>> help even during the San Francisco
earthquake.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
> >>>
> >>> Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
> >>>
> >>> kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
> >>>
> >>> their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled
> >>>
> >>> to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
> >>>
> >>> over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not
> >>>
> >>> one of those."
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Stand proud, America!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This is one of the best editorials that I have ever
> >>>
> >>> read regarding the United States. It is nice that
> >>>
> >>> one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the
> >>>
> >>> world would realize it. We are always blamed for
> >>>
> >>> everything, and never even get a thank you for the
> >>>
> >>> things we do.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I would hope that each of you would send this to
> >>>
> >>> as many people as you can and emphasize that they
> >>>
> >>> should send it to as many of their friends until this
> >>>
> >>> letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just
> >>>
> >>> a single American that has read this.
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