From: Thor Bols (thorbols@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/01-12:25:28 PM Z
Noble sentiments, indeed. But it might be useful to note that Mr. Sinclair
made these statements in 1973.
>From: Nick Makris <nick@mcn.org>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: Alt Photo <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
>Subject: Editorial broadcast from Toronto
>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:10:35 -0700
>
>Received the following and just feel that it is worthy of review.
>Actually received it twice this morning.
>
>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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>x;-)>=
>
>galen@diamondjim.Com
>
>
>
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