ENCLOSURE "B"                        
 
                                                            
 
 
Excerpt from a speech made in Rome by the Communist Member of the Italian   
          Government, July 10, 1944 (translation):          
 
                                                            
 
 
"We are aware that in the past there have been psychological and organized   
obstacles to theis unity of action (e.g. between the Communists, Socialists   
and Catholics). We have now ddome the necessary to eliminate these obstacles  
.  Above all I have stated, as the spokesman of the Communist Party, and I   
repeat it here in Rome, the Capital of the Catholic World, this   
declaration, namely that we are respecting the Catholic faith, the   
 traditional faith of hte majority of the Italian people".  
 
                                                            
 
 
(The speaker added that he expected reciprocal comprehension on the part   
                     of the Catholics).