Harry Truman's Forgotten Diary

The Washington Post ^ | July 11, 2003 | Rebecca Dana and Peter Carlson

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"The Jews, I find are very, very selfish," President Harry S. Truman wrote in a 1947 diary that was recently discovered on the shelves of the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and released by the National Archives yesterday.

Written sporadically during a turbulent year of Truman's presidency, the diary contains about 5,500 words on topics ranging from the death of his mother to comic banter with a British aristocrat. But the most surprising comments were Truman's remarks on Jews, written on July 21, 1947, after the president had a conversation with Henry Morgenthau, the Jewish former treasury secretary. Morgenthau called to talk about a Jewish ship in Palestine -- possibly the Exodus, the legendary ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees who were refused entry into Palestine by the British, then rulers of that land.

[Enterprise]

LOL! I'll take it under advisement.

[an amused spectator]

An examination of the destruction of the Japanese Army in Manchuria by the Russians in 1945 doesn't make it seem that the US could have gone straight to Moscow. The Germans lost about 2,000,000 military dead against the Soviets when the Soviets were unprepared. It's not at all clear that the US could have done better when Russia was on a war-footing.

I concur. The Russians (well, at least Uncle Joe) were willing to take 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%+ casualties against the Germans.

The Western way of war breaks down against that model.

[Digger]

By today's standards, he would be considered a "right-wing extremist" !

The Communist Manifesto has about accomplished all of its goals....But RUSH thinks we are becoming more conservative. He also told us GW was a conservative before his election.