PROUD TO BE ONE!
I know this has nothing to do with Dominican Travel but while the DR1 office is closed down maybe it won't get censored so fast! I appreciate the kind thoughts from our Canadian cousins and just wanted to share.
> > Subject: Something to think about
: >
: >
: > I found this very uplifting. I received this from a friend in Canada
: > with
: > whom I have contact. He read this in the Toronto
: > newspaper
: > and said it expressed alot of personal feelings. Enjoy!
: >
: >
: > A Tribute to the United States of America: The Good Neighbor.
: >
: > Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
: > remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto. The editorial was 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 the franc 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 10? If so, why don't they fly them?
: >
: > Why do all the International Airlines 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 man 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, Americans.
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