Fw: Canadian News article

["Geoff Nilson" <geoff.nilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "bob blackburn" <bob.blackburn@domain.elided>
To: <geoff.nilson@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:12 AM
Subject: Canadian News article


> Geoff,
>
> Thought you might appreciate this & forward to rest of office.
>
> Bob-
>
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> From: "Michael Jaron" <mjaron22@domain.elided>
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:59:25 -0400
>
> Interesting reading.
>
> 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!
>
>
>
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