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On June the 5th, 1973,
during his broadcast over CFRB Toronto,
Mr. Gordon Sinclair,
one of Canada's most respected broadcasters,
had some thoughts concerning his
American neighbors.
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These are his words.
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The United States dollar
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has taken another pounding
on German, French and British exchanges,
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hitting the lowest point ever
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known in West Germany.
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It has declined there by 41 % since 1971,
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an d this Canadian thinks it's time to
speak up for the Americans
as the most generous
and possibly the least appreciated
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people in all the earth.
As long as 60 years ago,
when I first started to
I read of floods on the Yellow River
and the Yangtze.
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Who rushed in with men and money
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to help?
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The Americans did. That's who.
They've helped control floods
on the Nile,
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the Amazon, the Ganges,
and the Niger.
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Today the rich bottom land
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of the Mississippi is underwater,
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and no foreign land has sent
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a dol lar to help.
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Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of
war by the Americans,
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who poured in billions of dollars
and forgave other billions in debts.
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None of those countries is today
paying even the interest
on its remaining debts
to the United States.
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When the Frank was in danger
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of collapsing in 1956,
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it was the Americans who propped it up,
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and their reward was to be insulted
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and swindled on the streets of Paris.
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I was there. I saw it.
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When distant cities are
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hit by earthquakes,
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it's the United States that hurries
in to help them.
Monaco and Nicaragua
is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring,
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59 American communities
have been flattened
by tornadoes.
Nobody has helped.
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The Marshall Plan,
the Truman Policy,
all pump billions upon billions
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of dollars
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into discouraged countries.
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And now newspapers
in those countries
are writing about the decadent,
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war -mongering Americans.
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I'd like to see just one of those countries
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that is gloating over the erosion
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of the United States
dollar
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Build its own airplanes?
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Come on, let's hear it.
Does any other
country in the world
have a plane
to equal the Boeing jumbo jet?
The Lockheed Tristar
If so, why don't they fly
them?
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Why do all international lines
except Russia fly American planes?
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Why does no other land on earth
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even consider putting a man or
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a woman on the moon?
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You talk about Japanese technocracy
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You talk about German technocracy,
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and you get automobiles.
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You talk about American technocracy,
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and you find men on the moon,
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not once, but several times,
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and safely home again.
You talk about scandals,
and the Americans put theirs right
in the store window
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for everybody to look at.
Even the Draft Dodgers
are not pursued and hounded.
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They're right here
on our streets in Toronto.
Most of them, unless they're
breaking Canadian laws,
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are getting American dollars
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from mom and dad at home
to spend here in Canada.
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When the Americans get out of this bind, as they will,
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who could blame them if they said,
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to hell with the rest of the
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world.
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Let someone else build or repair
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or design foreign buildings
that won't shake apart in
earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany,
and India
were breaking down through age,
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It was the Americans who rebuilt
them.
When the Pennsylvania
Railroad
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and the New York Central went broke,
Nobody loaned
them an old caboose.
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Both are still broke.
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I can name you five thousand times
When the Americans raced
to the help of other people in trouble.
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Can you name me even one time
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When someone else raced
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to the Americans in trouble?
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I don't think there was outside help
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Even dur ing the San Francisco earthquake.
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Our neighbors have faced it alone.
And I'm one Canadian
who's damn tired of
hearing them kicked around.
They will come out of this thing
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with their flag high.
And when they do,
they're entitled to thumb their nose
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at the lands that are gloating
over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these.
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And another thing,
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recently the American Red Cross
was told at its 48th annual meeting in
New Orleans that it was broke.
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This year's disasters,
with a year less than half over,
has taken it all.
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And nobody, but nobody,
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has helped.
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