TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

[Geo/Len <szucs@videotron.ca>]

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> This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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> America: The Good Neighbor.
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> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
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> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
> Canadian
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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.
>
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> When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that
> hurries
>
> in to help.  This spring, 59 American communities
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> 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
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> Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?  If so, why don't they fly
> them?
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> 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
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> technocracy, and you find men on the moon -not once, but several times
> -
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> and safely home again.
>
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> 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.
>
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> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down
> through
>
> age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania
> Railroad
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> and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old
> caboose.
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> Both are still broke.
>
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> 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
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> I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked
> around.
>
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> They will come out of this thing with their flag high.  And when they
> do,
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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