(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.

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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.

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When the franc 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.

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When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that

hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by

tornadoes. Nobody helped.

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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.

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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

Tristar, or the Douglas DC-10? 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.

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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.

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I can name you 5,000 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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God Bless AMERICA...."

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