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> It is the full text of an editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon
> Sinclair, a Canadian Television Commentator as printed in the
> Congressional Record.
>
> America: The Good Neighbor.
>
> 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 entries 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-odgers 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.