> >>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
> >> 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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