Like most liberals, Truman was a vicious Jew-Hater.

Truman and the Jews
By William Safire
July 15, 2003

A 5,500-word diary in President Harry Truman's handwriting, unnoticed for
decades, recently turned up at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. Three
pages were mysteriously loose and interleaved in the journal.
On these detached and reinserted pages was this entry: "6:00 P.M. Monday
July 21, 1947. Had ten minutes conversation with Henry Morgenthau about
Jewish ship in Palistine [sic]. Told him I would talk to Gen[eral George]
Marshall about it."

On that day, news reached the world that 4,500 Jewish refugees seeking entry
to Palestine aboard the ship Exodus 1947 had been seized by British
soldiers. These "displaced persons" had been placed on three vessels
ostensibly headed to nearby Cyprus for detention until permitted entry to
the Holy Land, where other Jews waited to welcome them. Instead, the
homeless families, including a thousand children, were encaged on decks
being taken back to a hostile Europe.

"He'd no business, whatever to call me," Truman wrote. Morgenthau, who had
served as F.D.R.'s treasury secretary, was telephoning Truman as chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal, and had an obligation to get through to the
president to stop this further atrocity.

"The Jews have no sense of proportion," wrote the incensed Truman after he
hung up, "nor do they have any judgement on world affairs. Henry brought a
thousand Jews to New York on a supposedly temporary basis and they stayed."
These refugees were welcomed in Oswego, N.Y., just after the war, and Truman
saw political implications in Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's support for Jewish
immigration: "When the country went backward — and Republican in the
election of 1946, this incident loomed large on the D[isplaced] P[ersons]
program."

Then the president vented his spleen on the ethnic group trying desperately
to escape from Europe's hatred: "The Jews, I find are very, very selfish.
They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or
Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special
treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political
neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment
to the under dog."

After equating the cruelty of Jews with that of Hitler and Stalin, Truman
waxed philosophic about ingratitude: "Put an underdog on top and it makes no
difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor,
Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember
their past condition when prosperity comes."

Truman wrongly assumed that the plight of all of Europe's displaced was the
same — ignoring the "special treatment" Hitler had inflicted on the Jews of
the Holocaust, resulting in six million murdered, genocide beyond all other
groups' suffering. The homeless survivors now faced sullen populations of
former neighbors who wanted no part of the Jews' return.

This diary outburst reflected a longstanding judgment about the ungrateful
nature of the oppressed; in a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, he repeated that
"Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as
intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were
underneath."

Did this deep-seated belief affect Truman's policy about taking immigrants
into the U.S., or in failing to urge the British to allow the Exodus
refugees haven in Palestine? Maybe; when the National Archives release was
front-paged last week in The Washington Post, historians and other liberals
hastened to remind us that the long-buried embarrassing entry was written
when such talk was "acceptable." The director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum dismissed it as "typical of a sort of cultural anti-Semitism that was
common at that time."

For decades, I have refused to make such excuses to defend President Nixon
for his slurs about Jews on his tapes. This is more dismaying.

Lest we forget, Harry Truman overruled Secretary of State George Marshall
and beat the Russians to be first to recognize the state of Israel. The
private words of Truman and Nixon are far outweighed by their pro-Israel
public actions.

But underdogs of every generation must disprove Truman's cynical theory and
have a duty to speak up. I asked Robert Morgenthau, the great Manhattan
D.A., about Truman's angry diary entry, and he said, "I'm glad my father
made that call."


--
Oh, be still my heart.

I'm falling in love with the guy all over again, while reading Hillary's
book.
Forget about her being the smartest woman in the world. She's the luckiest
woman!

- Bonnie BLUE EYES, boniblueyz@aol.com, who insists everyone knows she is
White

"John Starrett" <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu> wrote in message
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> "Liberals.HATE.America!','-" wrote:
> >
> > Like most liberals, Truman was a vicious Jew-Hater.
> >
> <snip>
>
> You are exaggerating. Most liberals don't hate Jews.

"You fucking Jew bastard!" -- Hillary Klinton

"Hymie town" -- Jesse Jackson

Al Sharpton established a cordon of chanting picketers outside of Freddy's
and left things in the care of his trusted lieutenant Morris Powell, a
former mental patient. Sharpton's picketers ranted against the "Jew
bastards" and "the blood-sucking Jews." Morris Powell darkly threatened that
"this street will burn."

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"Then I started listening to Maxine Waters and Louis Farrakhan and others,
and they said how wonderful we were. We were kings and queens from Africa
and we were the first on earth and all this crazy stuff but that we couldn't
have it because of that ole blue-eyed devil, and that the bloodsucking Jew
was trying to hold us back." -- Jesse Peterson