Depending on your age, you may have heard this radio broadcast piece back in
1973. It was written in response to reports that the American Red Cross was
on the verge of bankruptcy!
Canadian author/reporter Gordon Sinclair died in 1984.
Myself being of Canadian origin and currently living in the United States, I
also feel very strongly of the events earlier this week.
But please, this is not the forum for this!!!
God Bless America.
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:45 PM
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I saw this article before - it is awesome!!
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Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:19 PM
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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!"
> > "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."
> >
> > - Bill Gelberg
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