Show y Lets Let's Let hear it for far the U U. S. S on Once again America seems seems' to be every eVeryone's nes ne's I favorite shipping boy Watergate and the crisis of confidence the ener energy energy Y sh shortage and talk of recession the Middle East War and cracks In the Atlantic alliance and so soan soon soon an on and on oh S Some me tune time ago a aa perceptive Canadian commentator Gordon Sinclair lr took time out put to deliver delivers deliver's aa a tho thoughtful essay on what's good about nd Americans Americana Coming from froma a J foreigner it makes makei for lor interesting and arid heartening listening H Here re is Is' what Mr Sinclair had to say This Canadian I thinks Jt it is time to speak up for Americans as the most ge generous and possibly the least appreciated p people on all 11 the earth rth Germany Japan and to toa a lesser leaser eXt extent n and Italy were were lifted foot put out of il the debris of war by the Americans American ans wh who poured l in billions bUlla of l dollars and aed d forgave other billions in debts None of these countries is today Joday paying eyen even even the Int interests interest t on on ri its Its' remaining debts to the United States When the franc Vis was as in dar danger g r o of collapsing in 1956 1958 it was the Americans who propped it up and r their reward was wu was to be i insulted and aDd swindled on the streets of P Paris I was there I saw it IL Whet When distant cities are hit b by earthquakes e it IUs itis is the United States that hurries Ti iA in to help This ip spring in 59 A Ame con iii communities communities' were were flatt flattened D dby by tornadoes Nobody Yh 1 iJ un e M tah d the Truman Pol i r P d. d billions ll ns upon Pon bUli billions Os of dollars into discouraged countries No Now newsPapers newspapers in in those count countries ies are are writing I about the decadent Warmongering Americans I Id Td d' d like e- e to see just one of af l those ose countries countries that is is gloating over the l r l n of the United st States tes dollar build its ita oWn own airplanes nes Come on lets let's hear It it- it k Does boes any other country in the world have hav a a planet plane to equal ual the Boeing Jumbo 7 Jet the Lockheed e d Tristan or a the Douglas 10 If so why done don't dont they fly Oy them Why do all the international lines Unes except Russia fly American planes Why does no other land on earth even e 1 consider ons putting a a man man or a w woman man manon on on the themo moon moon n You talk about Japanese technocracy t and rK you get radios You talk about German technocracy y and you g get automobiles Y You u talk abo about t American technocracy and yOu you find men men on 00 the moon not once but several times and safely h home n e again apin You t talk lk about baut scandals and the them Americans m rl n put pit their right in Inthe the store window for everybody to look at Even their draft dodgers are tare not pI pursued ed and hound hounded They They are here mour on m our streets streets' streets and most of them unless they are are breaking Can Canadian l laws ws are are getting American dollars from Ma and at here When w n the railways of Ii France Germany and India were breaking down d wn through ugh ag age it was the Americans who rebuilt them When theP the P Pennsylvania n Railroad and the New NewYork NewYork York Central went broke nobody loaned them an old rid caboose Both are still sWI broke 7 I name times when can name you 5 nes Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble Can you name me e even en one time when someone else lSe raced all lo thA e merl er i It 11 0 J ti l I dont don't think there was outside help even v during the San Fra Francisco earthquake ke They will come out of this thing with their flag high And when they do they are entitled to thumb their nose at t the lands lands' that are are gloating ov over r their present tl troubles I hope Canada Canad is not one of or these From Canadian commentator Gordon Sinclair some thoughts on America as some darkly see it and as it truly is |