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Honorable Myron Taylor, there was established in Rome the National   
Committee for Relief to Italy which was organized with the   
participation of the Italian Government, the Vatican , the Italian Red   
Cross and the Gerneral Confederation of Labor.  This committee was set   
up for the purpose of undertaking the distribution of the Italian   
civilian population of relief goods collected by American Relief for I  
taly in the United States.  Already within this brief space of time,   
these relief supplies have reached Italian ports where they are being   
sorted out and routed to the various parts of liberated Itlay where   
the need is most urgent.  Among these regions of Itlay the Abruzzi   
stands out as the territory which suffered most on account of the war   
and where conditions are rendered more seroius by intense cold and   
snowfalls then come the regions of hte lower Lazio near Rome, Cassino,   
the Campania and all the other territories which are gradually being   
escued the Nazi fascist yoke by the armies of the democracie
 
                                                            
 
 
There are quantities of various goods which are being sent throughout   
liberated Italy even to the smallest mountain villages which are   
overlooked on maps but no by the loving care of those who have planned   
and undertaken this relief work-these supplies may well be  
 
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