at the termination of the war.               
 
                                                            
 
 
There is however an orgainization, the Red Cross, national and   
international, which has all of these facilities in a developed state, and   
I have always believed it should be a medium for the administration of   
relief.  For example, after the last war, the American Red Cross, and I   
believe that today it could reconstruct the Italian Red Cross as one of   
the distributing arms of UNRRA in that country.  It of course would work   
with the Church, which is vitally important in Italy, and through other   
anizations having facilities and personnel that would be use
 
                                                            
 
 
This memorandum is intended to bring to a focus the problem of relief,   
rehabilitaion, refugees and migration.  I am sure that private   
contributions in the United States through the National War Fund Inc. can   
never be adequate for such needs as now begin to appear, and that what is   
needed in this as in many other fields is not coordination but   
consolidation of all relief into a single agency--UNRRA- but using the   
facilities of the Red Cross and other suitable agencies for actual   
           distribution and local administration.           
 
                                                            
 
 
For the immediate situation I believe an instruction directly from you to   
the military is the only solution to avoid a dangerous situation and   
similarly that you should personally direct UNRRA to expand the scope of   
its authority and in turn assune its rightful responsibility in this   
                           field.