arranged for representatives of the American Red Cross, American Relief   
                  for Italy, AFHQ and ACC.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
These organizations also have, as is evident to us, adequate personnel   
        for the control and distribution of relief.         
 
                                                            
 
 
In order to merge into a single relief activity and to coordinate   
relief effort under a unified pattern with experienced guidance and   
supervision, the idea of forming the National Committee for   
Distribution of Relief was developed. Mu many messages and   
communications will indicate the progress of the development.  The   
difficulty which confronts relief action is clearly indicated in those   
communications as being those of supply of the essential foods and the   
means of transporting them across the sea and upon arrivial to the   
various communes in which centers for relief action have been created.    
ACC and lately AFHQ have supported the applications for increases   
shipment of supplies and trucks.  Recent advices with which you are   
familiar, are most discouraging in both thses aspects.  Please refer   
o my cable of October 12 and your reply No. 51 of October 19
 
                                                            
 
 
Many of the supplies under contenplation by UNRRA have also been in   
part provided by American Relief for Italy and by requistion of ACC,   
shipment of which ,as you are aware, has bee delayed, we are advised ,   
by the Combined Chiefs of Staff and other Allied agencies in   
Washington or London or elswhere.  It is our opinion that UNRRA   
activities should likewise be coordinated with those of the National  
Committee for Distribution of Relief in Italy in order that there   
might be no duplication or competition or confusion.  In our opinion a   
relatively small number of UNRRA representatives acting in cooperation   
with the above-named groups, can perform a more efficient, economical   
             adn timely accomplishment of their