at Naples and immediate transfer to the areas of critical need in Southern   
Italy had bben perfected. The Italian Government had even arranged to send   
one hundred carabinieri from Rome to Naples, especially to protect this   
shipment.  All the professions that we have mades in behalf of American   
Relief for Italy, Inc. and - in behalf of what is still more important- a   
humanitarian interest, which were the basis for the consolidations of the   
activities of the State, the Vatican adn Italian Red Cross are even, after   
the long delay which it has been difficult to explain, proved to be   
abortive at the time of the arrival of the first shipment of these   
                    materials in Itlay.                     
 
                                                            
 
 
I think it is only fair to say in reviewing this situation that as far as   
I know ther is nor personal hostility in high Allied Places toward this   
activity, but I am equally frank in saying that there has been practivally   
no help and no encouragement.  This is the situation which confronts us,   
and we believe which confronts you as the new Executive Head of the Allied   
Commission.  This, then, will be one of the factors which will be used to   
discredit the Italian Government and those who determine its action   
    through the controls which exist over its wellbeing.    
 
                                                            
 
 
I cannot tell you how much I regret to write this letter.  My motive is   
not based upon any other consideration than the one that has moved me   
throughout, ie., the humanitarian interest in those poor people whom we,  
through the fortune of war, have done much to render helpless and tragic.   
    This is a motive that one does not have to explain.     
 
                      Sincerely yours,                      
 
                  (singed) Myron C. Taylor                  
 
          Personal Representative of the President          
 
            of the United States to His Holiness            
 
                         the Pope.                          
 
                        Enclosures:                         
 
                          various                           
 
                            P.S.                            
 
                                                            
 
 
Among the documents in this file will be found the history of emerceny   
treatment of the serious malarial condition that arose in the Cassino area   
and the method of treating it through the medium of the National Committee   
for Relief.