This, from a Canadian newspaper, its worth sharing.

          America: The Good Neighbor.

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, 
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, 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 DC 10?
If so, why don't they fly them?

Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
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, of Canada.

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
dammed 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
 

