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

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

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

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.

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