This email was forwarded to me by a friend, and
I think it is most worthy
of forwarding to all my friends & family.
It is truly refreshing to hear
something positive about the U.S. for a change...
read on!
Marilyn
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 5,000
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!!
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This is one of the best editorials that I have
ever read regarding the
United States. It is nice that one man recognizes
many of the wonderful
contributions America has made to people and other
nations. I only wish
that the rest of the world would realize it too.
We are always blamed for
everything, and never even get a thank you for
the things that 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,
and I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT
MORE AMERICANS WILL READ IT SOON!!