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OT...JMHO


>KEEP IN MIND, THIS WAS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T EVEN LIVE IN THE
>>USA.
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>>This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
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>>America: The Good Neighbor
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>>Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
>>remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian
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>>television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant
>>remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
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>>"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most
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>>generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
>> Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out
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>>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.
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>>When Grance 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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>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 home safely again.
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>>You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store
>>window for everybody to look at.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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 with their
>>flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their noses at
>>the
>>lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not
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>>one of those."
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>>Stand proud America!!!!
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