MOTM

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Dear Mike,

I don't find this the right moment to respond in detail to your 
message (nr.12836). I only wish to say that it is out of place and 
even offending. I can't speak for all the countries which are 
mentioned, but the text from the Canadian newspaper is highly 
tendentious and untrue in many ways. Almost everybody in Europe is 
sharing his of her thoughts and emotions to the American people in 
this period as a result to the strong sympathic feeling we have 
towards the American people. Help in whatever way was almost 
immediately offered. I'm sorry that my personal sign of sympathy to 
the American people which I posted two days ago in this group didn't 
make the web somehow. 

Michel Havenith, The Netherlands

--- In motm@y..., "Mike B. Fisher" <mbfisher@i...> wrote:
> Apologies for the OT nature of this post, but I feel that this is an
> appropriate time to share these sentiments. If you agree, please 
pass these
> words along to others.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> > TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
> >
> > The following, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> >
> > 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
> > 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!