Tribute to the United States

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Seldom heard tribute from a citizen of another country.


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 franc 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 10?  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 5,000 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, Americans!

Ron