DEPARTMENT OF STATE  
                         WASHINGTON                         
 
      MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM MYRON TAYLOR:       
 
                                                            
 
 
It is generally asserted that relief of the civilian population of Allied-  
occupied Italy is inadequate, and this has given rise to much   
disappointment and criticism among the people.  As the occupation   
progresses to Rome and beyond, that condition will probably grow in   
                 seriousness and urgency.                   
 
                                                            
 
 
In a way, the conduct fo the Allies in Italy forms a pattern of the   
expected in other countries when occupied.  Up to this time the only   
substantial relief that has been afforded has been through and by the   
armies of invasion.  This has been natural and esstial--but it may well   
                   have been inadequate.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
At your reported instance, The President's War Relief Control Board   
recently persuaded me to act as temporary chairman of a group of five   
Trustees for Italian relief, Messrs. Arturo Toscanini, Angelo Patri, John   
M. Hailldring and Don Ameche.  Since undertaking the task we have   
organized it in corporation form, selected a capabel Executive Vice   
President, Judge Juvenal Marchisio of the Domestic Relations Court of New   
York City, and explored the field with a view to making of it a permanent   
   organization representative of the Italian community.    
 
There are more cross currents of Italian political felling,