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July 21:
[The entry
for this day is written on three loose pages, interleaved in the diary
book.]
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] Marshall about it.
He'd no business,
whatever to call me. The Jews have no sense of proportion 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.
When the country went backward-and Republican in the election of 1946,
this incident loomed large on the D[isplaced] P[ersons] program.
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.
Look at the
Congress[ional] attitude on D[isplaced] P[ersons]-and they all come from
D[isplaced] P[erson]s.
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