The more than 1,000 Jews detained at La Spezia are still aboard the “Fede” and are planning to hold a seder on board ship tomorrow evening Food has been supplied by the JDC.
The Italian Socialist Party, which is holding a conference in Florence, adopted a resolution urging that the “Fede” be permitted to sail for Palestine. The resolution added that the Jewish survivors of Nazi annihilation must be enabled to build a new life for themselves in Palestine.
Reports from displaced persons camps throughout Italy disclose that a hunger strike called for last Thursday in connection with the La Spezia incident was a complete success.
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