This almost makes me want to get that dish thingy so I can get 379,546
channels, including Canadian TV. Read on and smile.
Lori Allen,
Grad Student, UMSL
>
> > TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES - editorial from a Canadian
> > news paper
> >
> >
> > > >> 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!
> > > >>
> >
> > > >>
> > > >> 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 share his insight. We are always blamed for
> > > >> everything, and never even get a thank you for the
> > > >> things we do.
> > > >>
> > > >> I hope each of you 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Carol A. Zuck
> > Chief Operating Officer
> >
> > mailto:[log in to unmask]
> >
> > 860-482-6566, phone
> > 860-496-1372, fax
>
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