Fw: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor

From: geoff@centrifugepartners.com
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 01:36:00 EDT


Please, read this, sorry to send it to all of DML.

-geoff

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Subject: Fw: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor

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: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Butler, Michael" <MButler@TishmanSpeyer.com>
: To: <lyndamartone@yahoo.com>
: Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:48 PM
: Subject: FW: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
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: > Hun,
: >
: > Thought you would enjoy.
: >
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: Avrick, Linda
: > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:44 AM
: > To: Vono, Maria; Sekaloff, Carole Karpel; Cascio, Terry; Ogle, Eva;
: > Butler, Michael
: > Subject: FW: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
: >
: >
: >
: > Please read this.
: >
: > Linda Avrick
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: Lorraine Attard [mailto:lorraine@lectrosonics.com]
: > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 06:15 PM
: > To: Avrick, Linda; JEANETTE@lectrosonics.com; Joelpe632@cs.com;
: > THERESAO@lectrosonics.com; anna_libetti@ny.kirkland.com
: > Subject: (Fwd) FW: America: The Good Neighbor
: >
: >
: >
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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.
: >
: > ------- End of forwarded message -------
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