Does someone have the text of the Canadian who raised he!! about American giving help to other countries and no country helping Americans during disasters?
And he was d*mm mad about it.
I don't have the text but I believe it was Gordon Sinclair.
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time 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 Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money 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 no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. 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 those 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 distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are 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 107? 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 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 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 home 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 buy 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 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 to 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 neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired 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 lands 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 meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke. This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
Was this it?
The Kinks, "Catch Me Now I'm Falling"I remember, when you were down And you needed a helping hand I came to feed you But now that I need you You won’t give me a second glance Now I’m calling all citizens from all over the world This is captain america calling I bailed you out when you were down on your knees So will you catch me now I’m falling Help me now I’m calling you Catch me now I’m falling I’m in your hands, it’s up to you Catch me now I’m falling I remember when you were down You would always come running to me I never denied you and I would guide you Through all of your difficulties Now I’m calling all citizens from all over the world This is captain america calling I bailed you out when you were down on your knees So will you catch me now I’m falling Help me now I’m calling you Catch me now I’m falling I’m in your hands, it’s up to you Catch me now I’m falling When you were broke you would come to me And I would always pull you round Now I call your office on the telephone And your secretary tells me that she’s sorry, But, you’ve gone out of town. This is captain america calling This is captain america calling Help me now I’m calling you Catch me now I’m falling I’m in your hands, it’s up to you Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling I stood by you through all of your depressions And I lifted you when you were down Now it’s your chance to do the same for me I call your office and your secretary tells me That you’ve gone out of town This is captain america calling This is captain america calling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling I was the one who always bailed you out Of your depressions and your difficulties I never thought that you would let me down But the next time you’re in trouble Better not come running to me Now I’m calling all citizens from all over the world This is captain america calling I bailed you out when you were down on your knees So will you catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling Catch me now I’m falling