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FW: America the good neighbor No LBC what so ever.

To: "'spridgets@autox.team.net'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: FW: America the good neighbor No LBC what so ever.
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:41:52 -0500
Hello everyone...

As a Canadian, I concur with the sentiments expressed in this piece. Now, 
I've gotta research this in the morning, but I believe this originates from 
the late 60s or early 70s, as an editorial comment by newscaster Byron 
McGregor, who at the time was with CKLW (The Big 8) in Windsor, Ontario - 
right across from Detroit. It was subsequently released as a 'single' and 
played across Canada at the time. Now, it may have been re-printed in the 
Toronto newspaper, but not by Gordon Sinclair, who was indeed a respected 
Canadian broadcast/print journalist curmudgeon (think Andy Rooney with a 
bow tie) who passed away some ten years ago. (I'm a tad rusty on specifics 
without doing a bit more research)

Anyhow, just my .02 Cdn (.03 US$)...

Terry/Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
Glorious and Free
With great neighbours!

-----Original Message-----
From:   Elliott, Patrick [SMTP:patrick.elliott@attws.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, January 26, 2000 7:55 PM
To:     'Spridgets'
Subject:        America the good neighbor  No LBC what so ever.

Not sure if the source is true. But I thought I'd pass it on full all the
patriots on the list.



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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