6-#417 Twentythird from Vatican City
He desires to work for himself , his family and his country. It is
necessry to furnish the materials with which to bring about this
reconstruction and to encourage this desire of the Italian people to
help itself. It is necesary for Italian labor to have the means to
express again its geniality and ability. All must contribute their
effort and their will power to succeed.
I should like these feelings of Italian laborers which are so deeply
rooted in them to be reflected beyond our borders in terms of
confidence and credit and to bring about that indispensable
intercourse of commercial and industrial relations which contrary to
the ill-conceived ideolpgy of a former sectarian regime wil insure in
the reciprocal interest of those who give and those who receive the
vital reconstruction and rehabilitations. Thus we hope to be able to
exchange with our friends across the seas the products of our work in
order that with our industrial commercial and agricultural rebirth we
may be in a position to contribute to the vast work of world
reconstruction.
Once more in the name of the Italian people, I desire to express for
the great help and the great generosity of the American people my
profound gratitude to President Roosevelt and to his personal
representative Myron Taylor, Chairman of American Relief for Italy.
Through their
wholehearted