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["Duane R. Holland" <duaneh@bellsouth.net>]

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> >> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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