-4- #AMVAT 423, Thirtieth, from Rome            
 
silent workers tireless and efficient are your neighbors and your friends.   
Our forces are in good hands. We are proud of the generals and other   
officers who lead them in the field. They are beloved by their men and are   
thoughtful of their comfort and welfare in the liberated areas of Italy   
where the fury of the enemy was more desperate. Many people sleep in   
fields, in woods, in caves, in shacks, in old buildings without windows   
and roofs. In the interior many hospitals have been destroyed. The   
civilian wreckage multiplies. The people scurry about the insufficient   
bread ration. Cheese no longer is within their reach. Shoes are priceless.   
Clothes beyond even the reach of the rich. There is inadequate light and   
little heat. Soap is a luxury. Meat rarely seen by the people. Dark bread,   
there is little or no milk, transportation is most scarce, the masses   
walk. This is the inevitable aftermath of war. It is a sad picture. You   
will recall that last March the effort was undertaken by the United States   
to assist in the relief of the most urgent phases of this situation. Under   
the inspring leadership of our great President American relief for Italy   
                            was                             
 
                         organized