LCDmag1
09-13-2001, 08:36 AM
I got this in an email form one of my friends and i think it was very cool and is true. I have never thought of it, before i read this ed. Tell me what you think.
Subject: A Tribute
>
>The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
>Its subject is 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 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!
>
Subject: A Tribute
>
>The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
>Its subject is 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 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!
>