Fw: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES ~ Please Post ~

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Subject: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES ~

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> -- The following, from a Canadian newspaper, it's worth sharing.

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> It's subject is 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 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!

>

> This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read or heard

> 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 who has read this, but I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT

> SOON.

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