| This is one of the best editorials, written in 1973, that I have ever read regarding the United States and one Canadian broadcaster for CFRB - Gordon Sinclair.. It is nice that one man realized it. I only wish the rest of the world would realized it also and hope it never happens again in history!!! |
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| On June 5, 1973, Gordon Sinclair sat up in bed in Toronto, Ontario and turned on his TV set. The United States had just pulled out of the Vietnamese War which had ended in a stalemate - a war fought daily on TV, over the radio and in the press. The aftermath of that war resulted in a world-wide sell-off of American investments, prices tumbled, the United States economy was in trouble. The war had also divided the American people, and at home and abroad it seemed everyone was lambasting the United States. He turned on his radio. Twisted the dial and turned it off. He picked up the morning paper. In print, he saw in headlines what he had found on TV and radio - the Americans were taking a verbal beating from nations around the world. Disgusted with what he saw and heard, he was outraged! AT 10:30, on his arrival at CFRB (Canadian Radio Broadcasting), to prepare his two pre-noon broadcasts, he strode into his office and "dashed-off" two pages in 20 minutes for his show which he called, "LET"S BE PERSONAL" at 11:45 am, and then turned to writing his 11:50 newscast that was to follow. At 12:01pm, the script for "LET"S BE PERSONAL" was dropped on the desk of his secretary who scanned the pages for a suitable heading and then wrote "AMERICANS" across the top and filed it away. Below was the script: America: The Good Neighbor! "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 concider putting a man or woman on the moon? continue (page 2)>> |
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