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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!
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