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 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 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! Wear it  proudly!!