America Under Attack
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth
sharing. 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
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