Rich Stern
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<< >>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>>
>>This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>>
>>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 the franc 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 10? 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 5,000 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, Americans!
>>
>>============================
>>Who is Gordon Sinclair? Look Here:
>>http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/personal/hof/sincla_g.html >>
>>
>>This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>>
>>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 the franc 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 10? 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 5,000 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, Americans!
>>
>>============================
>>Who is Gordon Sinclair? Look Here:
>>http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/personal/hof/sincla_g.html >>
