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“TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA!
From a Canadian newspaper, the article reads:
“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 the
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, were 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, the United States 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 would 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, the Americans 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 even one time when someone else
raced to the Americans in trouble? I do not think there was outside help even
during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am
one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them be kicked around.
They will come out of this thing with their flag high. In addition, 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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What
countries of the world are now helping America, when we are under so much
pain?
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Several articles paying
Homage to U. S. A.
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