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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!
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.
Maybe each of you can send this to
at least one person and they might send it to one 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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