Palestine Independence Week, devoted to a nationwide demonstration of American support for the “Hebrew independence fight,” opened here yesterday, the American League for a Free Palestine announced. The League said that during the week, it will seek 1,000,000 signatures to a petition urging President Truman to use American vessels to transfer 100,000 displaced Jews from Europe to Palestine before the end of the summer.
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