TRIBUTE TO AMERICA

[Scott Dredge <sdredge@yahoo.com>]

The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth
sharing.

Its subject is "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!


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