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You can hear the audio for this editorial and read the text at:
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html
Note that it was (c) in 1973!
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Ned Markson
Ira Tunik wrote:
>
> Subject: FW: Canadian editorial
>
> 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/U.S. citizen that
> has
> read this. I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
>
>
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