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 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, 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 Tristar, 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 American 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.

Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine? That was nothing more than fuelling the Cold War, pure and simple. The US gave money to these countries to rebuild simply because they didn't want the Soviet Union to befriend them, and lengthen the Iron Curtain. This had nothing to do with humanitarianism and everything to do with American imperialism. It's so transparent to anybody who knows anything about the political situation at the time that it's laughable that Sinclair would try to pass this off as Americans helping those in trouble. If the world economy became depressed, America would have been fucked. It was self interest, period and the end.

We get planes from the States. Well whoopee. We get wheat from Canada, rice from China, wine from France, crack cocaine from Columbia. So what? It's what they call world economy. You think that if the United States didn't exist, that nobody would build planes? The US sent a man to the moon. Again.......who really cares, except for Americans. I mean, the Soviets were the first to send a man into orbit. How come you didn't mention that, Gordon? I can't even figure out what point he's trying to make with the whole scandal paragraph.

And racing to the aid of natural disasters and stuff? Guess what. It isn't just the US who does that. Many countries, including Canada send supplies, money and men to help out all over the world in emergencies.

So please, Gordon, spare me this diet of crap. Americans aren't humanitarians, they're imperialists. They offer aid to countries. But what do they ask in return? For a share of control in the government. And if the current government does not give them this control? They stage a coup and install a puppet government loyal to them. Ah quisling. The Americans have turned genuine motivation to help into something that can be turned to political gains. Yuck.