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 attended by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall
Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into damaged
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? 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 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. Thank God for this man who realizes what America
is all about. We always get the blame and never receive thanks, pass
this on to as many people as possible and let us all be
PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!