Please Read, and stop making fun of Canadians!
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
>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!
>
>
>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!