A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

 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!

 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. I would hope that each of you would send
 this to as many people as you can and emphasize that
 they should send it to as many of their friends until
 this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am
 just a single American that has read this, I SURE HOPE
 THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON. Stand proud, America!