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Subject: Fw: [VAROOTS] Fw: [MAINE] Stand proud, Americans. Source: Canadian Newspaper
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:31:15 -0500
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From: Deborah Piper <>
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Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 10:14 AM
Subject: [VAROOTS] Fw: [MAINE] Stand proud, Americans.
Source: Canadian Newspaper
>
> Deborah Ray Piper
> Rockport, Spencer Co., Indiana
>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 8:34 AM
> Subject: [MAINE] Stand proud, Americans. Source: Canadian
Newspaper
>
>
> From: (Robert Morin)
>
> To:
>
> This comes from a Canadian newspaper.
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
>
> Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
recently to a
> remarkable editorial broadcast from
> Toronto. The editorial was 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 the franc 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. Iâ?Td 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 10? If so, why donâ?Tt 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 donâ?Tt think there
> was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
>
> Our neighbors have faced it alone, and Iâ?Tm 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, Americans.
> </XMP>
>
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