The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

Its subject is 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!

NOTE:

An electronic version of "The Americans," which was originally broadcast by the
late Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair, and has been e-mailed under the guise
of a recent editorial despite the fact Sinclair died in 1984 and wrote the script
in 1973 toward the end of the Vietnam War, is now making its rounds of internet.

The original broadcast of the above text was broadcast on June 5, 1973. Below
is a link to the original broadcast in .mp3 format. The file is close to 1.5 meg
in size so it will take some time to download to your computer. Feel free to 
click here to download the original broadcast. You will need a program like
WinZip to unpack the file.

I would hope that each of you would send this URL to as many people as you
can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until
this URL is sent to every person on the web.

I am just a single American who has read and listened to this many times, but...

I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.

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