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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:56:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nathan Wolfson <nathan_wolfson@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: nathan_wolfson@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: it is something worth sharing
To: ting@monkeybiz.Stanford.EDU, pals@funfolks.net
In-Reply-To: <200109130716.AAA01132@monkeybiz.Stanford.EDU>
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I appreciate the sentiment here, but it is important to note that
this email is a "hoax" in terms of it's attribution, and some of the
"facts" are suspect.

--- ting@monkeybiz.Stanford.EDU wrote:
> This, from a Canadian newspaper, is 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, 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!
> 


=====
Nathan Wolfson

nathan_wolfson@yahoo.com

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