[Ansteorra] America appreciated (off topic)

[Bryan Reynolds]

Does anyone know when this commentary was actually written?  I remember hearing
it once back in the '80s....

Jane Sitton wrote:

> Bonjour, fellow Ansteorrans, and greetings, fellow Americans!
>
> The following was sent to me by a co-worker.  I cannot vouch for the truth
> in all the statements, but the sentiment is great, none-the-less.
>
> Ly Madelina de Lyndesaye
>
> Subject:  The United States.....
>
> 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!
>
> "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."  --John De Los Santos
>
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