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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.

  Bill Gelberg

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