From: "Jim Sharpe" To: ; "mrecore" ; "LIVELY, SUSAN S." ; "Juliana M McCollough" ; "joyce & jerry Matchett" ; ; "James Sharpe" ; "Eugene Arnold" ; "Earle Temple" ; "David Sharp" Subject: Fw: Tribute to the USA Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:12 PM This is pretty good. Got this on e-mail from someone at work. -------------------------------------> > This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing. I would like each of us > to take two minutes to read it. > > 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 the franc 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 technology, and you get radios. You talk about German > technology, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technology, 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." > > > Have a safe weekend. > Lee B.