Gordon Sinclair Quotes

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

  Gordon Sinclair

• You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

  Gordon Sinclair

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

  Gordon Sinclair

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

  Gordon Sinclair

• 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

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

  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.

  Gordon Sinclair

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

  Gordon Sinclair

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

  Gordon Sinclair

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

  Gordon Sinclair

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Gordon Sinclair (14)

Birth:	3rd June, 1900
Death:	17th May, 1984
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Journalist, Television Personality

About

Allan Gordon Sinclair was born in Cabbagetown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a Canadian journalist, radio announcer, and television personality. At 22 in 1922, he appeared on the payroll of the Toronto Daily Star as a reporter. He had a series of assignments in the late twenties and thirties that sent him around the world four times as a wandering reporter. He traveled 360,000 miles, through all continents, and on all oceans except the Antarctic. His career took a turn in 1942 and he began working in radio. He reported on the raid on Dieppe, and he was then asked to write biographical sketches of leaders in that raid. In 1957 he became a charter member of Front Page Challenge, a weekly panel show on the CBC TV network. It was Canada’s longest running television program, which continued until 1995. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979. He wrote several books include: Bright Paths to Adventure, Foot-loose in India, Khyber Caravan, Will The Real Gordon Sinclair Please Stand Up, and Will The Real Gordon Sinclair Please Sit Down.

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