The combat experience gained during this period was put to good use in the postwar years. At the end of World War II the pressures for independence were increased. The ghastly and pitiful spectacle of the refugees of German concentration camps called the attention of the world tothe plight of the Jewish people on the European mainland. More than ever before the cause of a national homeland for the Jews seemed a just one. Yet British forces turned away ships loaded with refugees brought to the very shores of Palestine. and when legal entry to the refugees was refused. illegal means were found by Zionist groups. Violence broke out in Palestine and while the British rigidly continued to follow their prewar policy of restriction of Jewish immigration. President Harry S. Truman called for the immediate admission of 100.000 Jews -to Palestine as early as 1945.
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