> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>
> 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 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 mom and dad
> 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 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.
>
> Maybe each of you can send this to at least one person and they might
send
> it to one 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.
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