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 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. 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 technology,
and you get radios. You talk about German technology,
and you get automobiles. You talk about American
technology, 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 fromma 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 TOO.
Thanks to my good Friend Linda for sending this to me!!
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