March 1948

Thanks to the Whiskey Rebellion, Strom Thurmond [Democratic Governor of South Carolina – AS], and other conservative, big business, and racist agitation, the small groups of protesters we saw late last year, are now larger and more violent.  An angry mob of 2,500 greeted our arrival at a coliseum in Evansville, Indiana.  One of the protest signs read “Dear Uncle Joe, How am I doing?  Faithfully yours, Hank.”  The mob tried to break into the auditorium, but the police were able to stop their advance.   In a speech in a park near the University of Iowa, two eggs thrown by an audience member just missed H.A.  The newspapers encouraged this rouge behavior by running headlines like “Hot Reception Looms in K.C. for Wallace.”  In another outdoor rally in Columbia, Missouri eggs were again thrown and hecklers attempted to disrupt H.A.’s speech. 

The Soviet mob is also out of control.  Jan Masaryk [see February 1948 entry - AS] was murdered by being thrown out the bathroom window of his office.  The official pronouncement is that his death was an accident.  Playing off the national motto "Truth Prevails," Mr. Masaryk would often say "Truth prevails, but it's a chore."  The circumstances of his death would be ironic if they were not so tragic for him and his country.  Thank you for your service and courage Mr. Masaryk, I hope that someday people will awaken to the horrors of both Capitalism and Communism so that truth will one day prevail.

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