>  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 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!