Re: Tribute to the United States

["Patricia Winston \(Trish\)" <winstonp001@hawaii.rr.com>]

This is  from a radio broadcast in 1973 by Gordon Sinclair.


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From: <RonaldS842@aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Tribute to the United States


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> Seldom heard tribute from a citizen of another country.
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> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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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
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> remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
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> Canadian television commentator.  What follows is the full text of his
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> 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
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> most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the
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> earth.  Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were
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> lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions
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> of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.  None of these countries
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> is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the
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> United States.
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> When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans
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> who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled
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> 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
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> hurries in to help.  This spring, 59 American communities were flattened
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> by
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> tornadoes.
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> Nobody helped.
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> The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into
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> discouraged countries.  Now newspapers in those countries are writing
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> about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
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> I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the
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> erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane.  Does any
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> other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet,
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> the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas 10?  If so, why don't they fly
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> them?
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> Why do all the International lines except Russia fly
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> American Planes?
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> Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or
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> woman on the moon?  You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get
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> radios.
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> You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.
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> You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon, not
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> once,
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> but
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> several times and safely home again.
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> You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the
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> store window for everybody to look at.  Even their draft-dodgers are not
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> pursued and hounded.  They are here on our streets, and most of
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> them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American
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> dollars
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> from ma and pa at home to spend here.
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> When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down
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> through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.  When the
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> Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned
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> them an old caboose.  Both are still broke.
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> I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other
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> people in trouble.  Can you name me even one time when someone
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> else raced to the Americans in trouble?  I don't think there was outside
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> help even during the San Francisco earthquake.  Our neighbors have
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> faced it alone, and  I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing
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> them
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> get kicked around.
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> They will come out of this thing with their flag high.  And when they
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> do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating
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> over their present troubles.  I hope Canada is not one of those."
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> Stand proud, Americans!
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> Ron
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