Para suas apreciações, encaminho um e-mail recebido de um canadense, não sei
se antes (parece provável) dos trágicos aontecimentos em NY.
Não tem muito a ver com o fato isolado de nossa UE mas creio que o "espírito
da coisa" está muito embutido nele e é sempre bom lidar com vários pontos de
vista ou, pelo menos, ter conhecimento da política geral e seus recursos.
Não me entendam como concordando com o artigo.
Apenas acho que podemos aprender com ele o "know-how" geral, como são feitas
as coisas.
E isso ajuda a preparamo-nos para nossos futuros e eventuais problemas.
Se conveniente e necessário traduzí-lo, posso tentar.
Sem maiores comentários, passo-lhes o texto, no original :
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Message to Americans
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!
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Abraços
Luiz R.Cordioli
SCarlos-SP
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