Gordon Sinclair Quotes

Canadian - Journalist June 3, 1900 - May 17, 1984

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. Gordon Sinclair

Spring, Flattened, Been

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Gordon Sinclair

Scandals, Everyone, About

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. Gordon Sinclair

Reward, Streets, Insulted

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. Gordon Sinclair

Sixty, Floods, Read

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. Gordon Sinclair

Francisco, Think, San

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. Gordon Sinclair

Here, Laws, Streets

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. Gordon Sinclair

Extent, Billions, Other

I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Gordon Sinclair

Other, People, I Can

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. Gordon Sinclair

United States, Took, German

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Gordon Sinclair

Help, Foreign Land, Bottom

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. Gordon Sinclair

Through, Germany, Them

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again. Gordon Sinclair

Again, About, Several

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. Gordon Sinclair

Car, German, Automobiles

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. Gordon Sinclair

Japanese, Get, About

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