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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 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.
> 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.
>
>
>
john.arnold@enron.com