Those words from more than 25 years ago, still apply.
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] NY ATTACK
Don, I certainly hope you are not suggesting that all Canadians are
ignorant. I am Canadian and take offence to you stereotyping a complete
country. As for the events that have taken place in the U.S., I have been
watching in shock and horror. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who
has been touched by this. I came across the following news item and hope it
is appropriate to share here as it echoes my feelings and I'm sure those of
many , many others. This, from a Canadian newspaper,
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!
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