stoney
09-14-2001, 05:08 AM
> This is from a Canadian newspaper.
>
> 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 the 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 DC-10? 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 the Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You
> talk about the German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
> the 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 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 Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania and the New
> York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still
> broke.
>
> I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help 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 am 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!
>
> 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 the 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 DC-10? 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 the Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You
> talk about the German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about
> the 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 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 Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania and the New
> York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still
> broke.
>
> I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help 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 am 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!