[at-l] America: The Good Neighbor.

[mrninduv@yahoo.com (Eva)]

This is, from a Canadian newspaper. I thought it
was 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.  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.

Morning Dove

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Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may 
not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe
in them and try to follow where they lead. 
-Louisa May Alcott-

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