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Don Juan de Feu
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   A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
     From a Canadian newspaper
              

      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?
  
  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 aid of other people in trouble. Can you name
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!
  
  
  
                                  
  



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