America: The Good Neighbor
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America: The Good Neighbor
> THIS IS FROM A CANADIAN NEWSPAPER
> Just when you thought the whole world hated us.....
> It helps to hum "God Bless the America" while reading this.
>
>
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: AMERICA
>
>
> 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 would realize it. We are always blamed for
> everything, and never even get a thank you for the
> things we do.
>
>
>
> 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.
> Just when you thought the whole world hated us.....
> It helps to hum "God Bless the America" while reading this.
>
>
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: AMERICA
>
>
> 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 would realize it. We are always blamed for
> everything, and never even get a thank you for the
> things we do.
>
>
>
> 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.
09-14-2001, 10:57 AM
#5
The sentiment is beautiful, but the origins are of a different time.
A time of equal greif and suffering, but limited unity in a country just having removed itself from a horrible "war"(Vietnam), and in very bad sorts.
09-14-2001, 10:57 AM
#6
AudiWorld Expert
Has it been mentioned that this was written in 1973?
The email doesn't mention it, but this was written in 1973. What's
interesting is that some of the disasters he mentions, like the San
Francisco earthquake and tornados, refer to previous incarnations of
similar events, though they still sound within the context of a recently
written article.
interesting is that some of the disasters he mentions, like the San
Francisco earthquake and tornados, refer to previous incarnations of
similar events, though they still sound within the context of a recently
written article.
