Gordon Sinclair has long been the voice of reason, very pleased to see
his words echoed here....
A patriot of North America, Mark Snowdon
Elliott, Patrick wrote:
> This comes from a Canadian newspaper:
>
> 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.
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
> "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 the franc 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 10? 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, Americans.
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