Hi All:<BR>I got this message from one of my friends up North. Thought it was worth passing on. Take care.<BR>Eric<P>Something worth reading. <P><BR>>This is from a Canadian broadcast. I thought it was worth sharing. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>America: The Good Neighbor. <BR>> <BR>>Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a <BR>>remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian <BR>>television commentator. What follows is the full text of his broadcast. <BR>> <BR>>"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most <BR>>generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. <BR>>Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out <BR>>of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and <BR>>forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying <BR>>even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. <BR>>When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who <BR>>propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the <BR>>streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. <BR>>When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries <BR>>in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by <BR>>tornadoes. <BR>>Nobody helped. <BR>>The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into <BR>>discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about <BR>>the decadent, warmongering Americans. <BR>>I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the <BR>>erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other <BR>>country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the <BR>>Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why <BR>>do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? <BR>>Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the <BR>>moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk <BR>>about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. <BR>>You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not <BR>>once, but several times - and safely home again. <BR>>You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store <BR>>window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued <BR>>and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they <BR>>are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at <BR>>home to spend here. When the railways of France,* Germany and India were <BR>>breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the <BR>>Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned <BR>>them an old caboose. Both are still broke. <BR>>I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other <BR>>people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to <BR>>the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during <BR>>the San Francisco earthquake. <BR>>Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired <BR>>of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with <BR>>their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at <BR>>the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is <BR>>not one of those." <BR>>Stand proud, America! <BR>> <BR>>This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the <BR>>United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the <BR>>rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, <BR>>and never even get a thank you for the things we do. <BR>> <BR>>I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can <BR>>and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until <BR>>this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American <BR>>that has read this, I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON. <BR>> <BR>>Stand proud, America
