ALL,
A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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* > > > >>> This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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* > > > >>> America: The Good Neighbor.
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* > > > >>> 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:
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* > > > >>> "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?
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* > > > >>> 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.
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* > > > >>> 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."
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* > > > >>> Stand proud, America!
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* > > > >>> 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. |
