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                 ALLIED MILITARY GOVERNMENT                 
 
                    LAZIO-UMBRIA REGION                     
 
                          APO 394                           
 
                      10 October 1944                       
 
ECT : Observation on report of Mr. Barr ARC and Judge Marchi
 
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                   TO: Chief Commissioner                   
 
          Headquarters, Allied Control Commission.          
 
                                                            
 
 
   1. A good part of the statements made in their report are accurate   
for the small region they saw. Conditions there are bad very bad.  An   
intelligent reader of their report will appreciate that one of the worst   
sections of liberated Italy cannot be used as a reflection of similar   
conditions in all of liberated Italy. Nor will the intelligent reader be   
misled by the implication in the opening sentence of the report that it  
"confines itself to the area in Italy released by the military to the   
Italian Government". Why don't they make a relative comparison of the   
badly hit area in Southern Frosinone with other provinces in liberated   
                           Italy?                           
 
 
                                                            
 
 
  2. Despite the obvious intent of the reporters to be accurate and   
objective and understanding of the many difficulties ever facing the   
administrator of civil affairs, the report of Mr. Barr and Judge Marchisio   
contains inaccuracies. Some months ago a special commxittee from the War   
Department came to Italy to make a report on food and clothing conditions.   
The Committee had limited time to devote to its inquiries and also lacked   
the day to day experience of wrestling with concrete obstacles. As a   
consequence, that committee suggested some step -obvious toit - but which   
could not be effectuated. Moreover, that committee reached certain   
         conclusions which were scarcely accurate.          
 
                                                            
 
 
3. No attempt will be made to explain at length the inaccuracies  
contained in the Barr-Marchisio report. Some will be merely referred  
                            to.                             
 
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a. the statement on the amount of bread given in  
                 - September in Frosinone.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
b. the statements on widespread starvation in Frosinone  
       - Province this winter. These statements are not pactual; they are   
            opinions,  I don't agree with them.             
 
                                                            
 
 
c. paragraph 4 on page 2 with respect tothe present rate  
             of import of grain into Fosinone.