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[Guest guest]

Dave and Shari (KAFE 104.3 Bellingham) read this 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 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

DC10?

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 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 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. "

~*~ AJ ~*~

Age 37 5'8''

Post op 7/24/01 Open BPD/DS

self pay - Dr Baltasar -Alcoy Spain

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