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"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, war
mongering 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 5,000 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 ****** 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 was written several years ago during the Iranian Hostage confict,
but holds true even More today.
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