In the mid-1930s, Jabotinsky founded the New Zionist Organization to achieve free immigration to Palestine for Jews and the establishment of a Jewish State. The organizaton arranged for more than 40 ships from European ports to bring tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to the nascent Jewish homeland. Jabotinsky also wrote poetry, novels, short stories and articles on politics, social and economic problems. From 1939 to 1940, he worked actively in Britain and the United States in the hope of establishing a Jewish army to fight with the Allies against Nazi Germany.
