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Verse 1
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.
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,
speak up for the Americans
as the most generous
and possibly the least appreciated
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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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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and no foreign land has sent
Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of
war by the Americans,
and forgave other billions in debts.
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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I was there. I saw it.
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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,
have been flattened
by tornadoes.
Nobody has helped.
the Truman Policy,
all pump billions upon billions
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of dollars
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into discouraged countries.
in those countries
are writing about the decadent,
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I'd like to see just one of those countries
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that is gloating over the erosion
dollar
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?
except Russia fly American planes?
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even consider putting a man or
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a woman on the moon?
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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,
You talk about scandals,
and the Americans put theirs right
in the store window
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
to spend here in Canada.
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When the Americans get out of this bind, as they will,
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to hell with the rest of the
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world.
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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,
them.
When the Pennsylvania
Railroad
Nobody loaned
them an old caboose.
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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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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
And when they do,
they're entitled to thumb their nose
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.
with a year less than half over,
has taken it all.
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has helped.
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