A Canadian viewpoint

Canadian kirjoitti:

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?

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!
Wear it proudly!!

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