Gordon Sinclair
Gordon Sinclair
Allan Gordon Sinclair, OC, FRGSwas a Canadian journalist, writer and commentator...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 June 1900
CountryCanada
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Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
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You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.
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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.
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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.
You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.
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I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.
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I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
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I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.
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When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.
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You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.