Re: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

[Jacques BESSON <jbesson@club-internet.fr>]

Astonishing!
It's time for thoughts and prayers better than for polemics
J.Besson
Geo/Len a écrit:

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> > This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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> > America: The Good Neighbor.
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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 just a single American that has read
> > this.
> >
> > I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
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