A Canadian Message to America.

[Shirley, Mark R]

Gordon Sinclair wrote that in 1973, after the US pulled out of Vietnam.

Below is a website that details this.

http://unclesam.net/cny/write/amer-1.htm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve.Flanagan at VerizonWireless.com
> [mailto:Steve.Flanagan at VerizonWireless.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:55 AM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: A Canadian Message to America.
> 
> 
> I got this forwarded to me, figure this was the best place 
> that I know of to
> share it with a world distribution list.
> 
> Thanks for your care and understanding.
> 
> Please forward to everyone you know.
> 
> 
> 
> AMERICA
> 
> This is from a Canadian newspaper and 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 
> broadcast.
> 
> "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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