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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."
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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."
"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
"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."
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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."
"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."
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