This was forwarded to me from a friend, I thought many of you would
appreciate reading it. If not, you know where the delete key is.
Gerard
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>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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>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 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 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!
>
>This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United
>States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the
>world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never
>even get
>a thank you for the things 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,
>
> I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
> This was forwarded to me and I wanted to do the same!
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G G Gerard Chateauvieux
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R R pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com
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