I received the following in an email.
>The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
>Its subject is "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!
>The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
>Its subject is "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!
