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Another interesting article for you folks:
This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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
> broadcast. "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.
> 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. Stand proud,
> America
This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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
> broadcast. "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.
> 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. Stand proud,
> America
