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> Interesting commentary by a Canadian Television
> Commentator-
>   
> A 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 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. 
>  
> I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.

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