[free-sklyarov] FW: Tribute to the US

[Charles Eakins]

>> W: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

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>> > > > 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 indebts. 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, war mongering

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 ALOT MORE READ IT SOON.


Perhaps you are diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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