I remember an audio recording of this, I believe by the author himself,
being played fairly often for a while on the radio in the early 70's.

Steve Gross
87 Westy
90 Carat

John Rodgers wrote:
>
> Terrorist Related
>
> A question directed to our Canadian List Membership.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> I got the following text from a friend in Guatemala that I went to High
> School with. Where he got it I don't know. But it seems vaguely
> familiar, and as such I question it's origins in terms of time. It was
> put out to me as having been recent - Like September 12. - yesterday!
>
> It's great commentary, and it's intent is appreciated, but I can't help
> but wonder if this is just one of those things that floats around out
> there forever on the internet.
>
> Here it is ......and thanks.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Thought you might like this.
> >
> > This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> >
> >         America: The Good Neighbor.
> >         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
> >         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!
> >