----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Ryan <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:29 AM Subject: [CONN-L] FYI > Subject: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES > > > 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 the 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 > that > has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON. > > > > > > > >