Re: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

[FBethea <poppycat_2000@yahoo.com>]

Amen.



--- Geo/Len <szucs@videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
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