America: The Good Neighbor

  • rvvrrat
    The Sand Prairie
    Posts: 1840
    #1312535

    Steve and James,

    I know this is not fishing related. Remove it if you wish. It was just nice to hear someone who is not a fellow countryman put into words how great the USA is….

    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 presenttroubles.

    I hope Canada is not one of those.”

    Stand proud, America!

    hooks
    Crystal, Mn.
    Posts: 1268
    #233690

    This has been posted in many places.

    Its inspirational to say the least.

    It was also written almost 30 years ago. Look at all thats happened since then in this world. Alot of the people in the rest of the world still seems to dislike us ugly americans. Ther governments might not but it seems like alot of the people do.

    Hook

    swimwizz
    Prescott, WI
    Posts: 39
    #233723

    Most people in this world don’t dislike America but only the minority who do (who are usally violent) get mentioned by the media because that makes better news. Yes America is under-appiecated but it is the price we pay for being the worlds most powerful nation, it is our place to mantain peace in the world.

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