A TRIBUTE TO AMERICA

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing ...

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!

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.