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Thursday, July 10, 2003

TRUMAN'S "BILLY GRAHAM MOMENT"?

A 1947 diary of Harry Truman's was recently discovered, and in it he says this:
"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 D[isplaced] P[ersons] 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. 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."
Hmm. His general point probably comes off better than his initial one. Of course, Truman is speaking as a former haberdasher who came to power and dropped two atomic bombs. Oh well.

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