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TRIBUTE
TO THE UNITED STATES
> >
> > This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, 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 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!
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