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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 percent since 1971
And this Canadian thinks it's 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 Yangtse
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 Mississippi 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 the 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 in to 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 just 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 Tri-star 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 a 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 will 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 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 you five thousand 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's 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 that it was broke
This year's disasters have taken it all
And nobody, but nobody, has helped