| Haalde mijn Mail binnen en kreeg dit mailtje This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > even during the San Francisco earthquake.
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> > 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."
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> > Stand proud, America!
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> >
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> > 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. |