This was an editorial written by a Canadian. I'm please to see that someone from another country recognizes all the good that America does for many other countries around the world.


Subject: TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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> TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
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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 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
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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 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!