Bryan,
I suspect the article was written 15 - 20 years ago so he was probably
referring to the '06 quake.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From "Bryan Vandiver" <Bryan.Vandiver at Eng.Sun.COM>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: FW: America the good neighbor No LBC what so ever.
> While I do appreciate the sentiments below, I do need to point out that
Japan
> did offer assistance after the 'SF earthquake' (FYI - we in the bay area
do
> resent that term, since the earthquake was centered much closer to Santa
Cruz,
> where most of the actual damage took place, the actual name was the Loma
Prieta
> quake)
>
> Regards,
> Bryan Vandiver
> San Jose, CA
>
>
> >To: "'spridgets@autox.team.net'" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: FW: America the good neighbor No LBC what so ever.
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> >Hello everyone...
> >
> >As a Canadian, I concur with the sentiments expressed in this piece. Now,
> >I've gotta research this in the morning, but I believe this originates
from
> >the late 60s or early 70s, as an editorial comment by newscaster Byron
> >McGregor, who at the time was with CKLW (The Big 8) in Windsor, Ontario -
> >right across from Detroit. It was subsequently released as a 'single' and
> >played across Canada at the time. Now, it may have been re-printed in the
> >Toronto newspaper, but not by Gordon Sinclair, who was indeed a respected
> >Canadian broadcast/print journalist curmudgeon (think Andy Rooney with a
> >bow tie) who passed away some ten years ago. (I'm a tad rusty on
specifics
> >without doing a bit more research)
> >
> >Anyhow, just my .02 Cdn (.03 US$)...
> >
> >Terry/Halifax, Nova Scotia
> >Canada
> >Glorious and Free
> >With great neighbours!
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Elliott, Patrick [SMTP:patrick.elliott@attws.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 7:55 PM
> >To: 'Spridgets'
> >Subject: America the good neighbor No LBC what so ever.
> >
> >Not sure if the source is true. But I thought I'd pass it on full all the
> >patriots on the list.
> >
> >
> >
> >This comes from a Canadian newspaper:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >America: The Good Neighbor.
> >"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 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 5,000 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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