FROM
THE HEARTS OF CANADA!!
TRIBUTE
TO THE UNITED STATES
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!! 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 ust a single American that
has read this, TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES !!
THIS
PAGE WAS MADE NOT ONLY FROM ME BUT FROM ALL THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE'S
HEARTS!! THANK YOU CANADA!!
NCZ/NKZ
AMERICA THE BEAUITFUL !
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