On July 21 Truman used the diary to vent his anger at the former treasury secretary, Henry Morgenthau, who had sought his intervention on behalf of a ship of Jewish refugees who had been denied entry by Britain to what was then Palestine.
"He'd no business, whatever to call me," Truman wrote. "The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any
judgment on world affairs."
In the same entry Truman goes on to say: "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 underdog. 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."
Discovery of Truman diary reveals attack on Jews | World news | The GuardianConsidering what is happening now some would suggest Truman was prophetic, asking for $100b from the US tax payer and screaming Islamic Terrorism at the top of their lungs and suggesting they should receive special treatment when expanding their borders since being established in 1948 after their own acts of terrorism in the years prior.
Their inability to "have any judgement on world affairs" may ultimately lead to WW3 at the expense of US money and troops.
