Fwd: Newspaper editorial on the US

[Karen Clanin <kclanin@fix.net>]

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>In light of what's going on, I think this is news everyone should hear.
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>This, from a Canadian newspaper, no less, 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 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 generous and possibly the least appreciated people on
> > > all the earth.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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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.
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> > > 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 safely home again.
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> > > 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.
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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 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."
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> > > Stand proud, America!
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> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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> > > This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read
> > > regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I
> > > only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always
> > > blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things 
> we do.
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> > > I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people
> > > as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of
> > > their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web.  I am
> > > just a single American that has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE
> > > READ IT SOON.
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>Remember to fly your flags!!!
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>My flag is flying high!! -