> This, from a Canadian newspaper, I thought it worth sharing. > > 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: > > America: The Good Neighbor. > I just received this on the Laurel County Genealogy site. Thought it was worth sharing. I hope you will send it to your whole mail list. > "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 > who has read this. I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON. > > ==== KYLAUREL Mailing List ==== > To subscribe or unsubscribe to this list send an email to: > KYLAUREL-L-request@rootsweb.com > In the MESSAGE type the one word .... SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE)