Recieved this today in my e-mail.

----------------------------- I've rarely heard any American say it as well...

Tribute to the U.S.

This comes from a Canadian newspaper. 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 the franc 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, war-mongering 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 10? 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, Americans.