Our teacher brought it into class. We did a 'current events' thing every
day.
Further research will disclose it was written and broadcast in 1973.
I think the intent is still valid.
William
-----Original Message-----
From: Mal Sasalu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Canadian Article
Probably I know every word of this article by now. William says he read this
when he was in elementary.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Bogdanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Canadian Article
> This should be read by every American. After yesterday's tragedy, we
all
> need a boost in spirit. This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth
sharing.
>
> 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:
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> "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."
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