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> 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:
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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 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.
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> 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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> 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.
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