Thanks man.
At 10:01 PM 9/12/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
>
>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, war mongering 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."
>
>
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