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America appreciated by one Canadian
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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:
>
> "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! And BE PROUD to be an american!
>
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