I usually don't forward these types of messages but this
one I
thought was truly worth reading. You do not have to respond back
to me.
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!
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.
Rhyder
http://www.gnotella.com
