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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 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? 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!
Wear it proudly!!
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.
Eiric
Forwarded by --- Erick the daddy --- friend of Eiric
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