Just wanted you people to see this. 


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! Wear it proudly!! 

This is one of the best editorials that I have ever 
read regarding the United States. It is nice that 
one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of 
the world would realize it. We are always blamed for 
everything, and never even get a thank you for the 
things we do. 

I would hope that each of you would send this to as 
many people as you can and emphasize that they 
should send it to as many of their friends until 
this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am 
just a single American that has read this, TRIBUTE TO 
THE UNITED STATES