Along the same line this was sent to me by a Canadian friend.
> 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!
>
>
>
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