The Americans by Gordon Sinclair
Currently, rushing around the US/wolrd on the WWW, there is a an abbreviate=
d version of a 1973 radio broadcast from Gordon Sinclair. The version =
I received (3 times) looks as if it is a current event from this weeks Canad=
ian Newspapers.
It is inspirational and the full original version is (IMHO) even more so. &=
nbsp;I have also added a real audio version that will allow you to hear the =
radio broadcast.
more on sinclair and the history of this story can be found at <http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/news/unique/ameri=
can.html>
Forward this to anyone you wish.
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Sincerely,
EJS
Valley Forge PA
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"The Americans" - Origin=
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"LET'S BE PERSONAL" Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, =
Ontario
Topic: "The Americans"
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and Britis=
h exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West German=
y. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is ti=
me to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least=
-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read=
of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and m=
oney to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the=
Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and n=
o foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser ex=
tent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the America=
ns who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. No=
ne of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining deb=
ts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans wh=
o propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the stre=
ets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hu=
rries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So =
far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. N=
obody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions=
of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries a=
re writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of=
the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
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 or the Douglas 10? If so=
, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly =
American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man=
or women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about Germ=
an technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy =
and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely hom=
e again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the s=
tore window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued =
and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are =
breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at hom=
e to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame=
them if they said 'the hell with the rest of the world'. Let someone else b=
uy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design=
foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through a=
ge, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad an=
d the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both a=
re still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans race=
d to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in t=
rouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco e=
arthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tire=
d of hearing them 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 l=
ands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous =
Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual m=
eeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over has taken it al=
l and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
ORIGINAL SCRIPT A=
ND AUDIO
COURTESY STANDARD BROADCASTING CORPORATION LTD.
(c) 1973 BY GORDON SINCLAIR
PUBLISHED BY STAR QUALITY MUSIC (SOCAN)
A DIVISION OF UNIDISC MUSIC INC.
578 HYMUS BOULEVARD
POINTE-CLAIRE, QUEBEC,
CANADA, H9R 4T2
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