Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable
editorial broadcast from Toronto 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 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
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 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other
people in trouble. Can you name 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."