<P><B>Tribute to
the <font color="#ff0000">United States</font> of
<font color="#0000ff">America</font></B>
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This is from a Canadian
newspaper.
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America: The Good Neighbor.
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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:
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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<B><font color="#ff0000">Stand</font> proud, <font color="#0000ff">America!</font> Wear it proudly!</B>