> > > Subject: FW: Stand Proud America!
> > >
> > > 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 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!