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 Edno mnenie za Amerika-na angliiski |
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| Автор | Priakor (Нерегистриран) | |
| Публикувано | 06.11.01 02:36 |
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OT: Hello Fellow Americans!
The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
Here's an article that one of my Canadian colleagues here at work sent me.
I
certainly agree with Gordon Sinclair, one of Canada's prominent news
reporters.
It is easy to sit back and take verbal shots at the US, but consider the
big
picture and you will see that the US ain't that bad.
Your Slave
TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
Its subject is "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!
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ISKAM DA PODCHERTAIA: "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."
Leka nosht,
Priakor
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