Ing. Galezzi: They could be given samples and asked to make the
clothing just according to the samples.
Mr. Silber: The material from America is being made up. Next week
it can be determined here whether it shall be put into the general
pool or not.
Brig. Parkinson: The other matter is about the 25,000 or 26,000
yards that will have to be purchased.
Ing. Galeazzi: It could be purchases by some other institute and
turned over to the ENDSI for free distribution.
Brig. Parkinson: That is quite a different thing. I think it is a
mistake to get mixed up with anything though that is not distributed
on a free basis.
Mr. Silber: Yes, if someone buys the cloth and turns it over to ENDSI to
distribute free, that is another matter. The question was raised at a
meeting a week or so ago about an allocation for repatriated Italian
prisioners of war returning from the Balkans. Nothing has been determined
about them.
Brig. Parkinson: The allocation has not been made yet.
Ing. Galeazzi: I think something has been arranged by JUNTA.
Mr. Silber: Mr. Taylor suggested that the full situation be presnted in
regard to the needs of these people. We will pass on it in the next
meeting. No allocation should be made to any group unless it is first
agreed upon here.
Ing. Vicentini: We talked about this situation in our last meeting. The
JUNTA also met and talked about it. It is a very urgent question. These
people are dying|
Brig. Parkinson: has any clothing reached them yet?
Ing. Vicentini: No it is all in Naples.
Mr. Silber: I think the fact that the JUNTA has approved it should be made
known to theis group, together with full information concerning the project,
and the actual allocation not made until and unless it bears the form of
an approval of this Advisory Group.
Ing. Galeazzi: If this council could just make a proposal and submit it to
Mr. Taylor for his approval.
Ing. Vicentini: I have information from the Italian Ministry of War and
from the Vatican that these refugees are without clothing. They are all
men- no women or children.
Ing. Galeazzi: Are they still in Bari?
Ing. Vicentini: Part of them are i Bari and part in Tarranto.
Ing. Galeazzi: If they are all in these two places, it would be a question
of shipping this clothing from Naples to Bari and Tarranto. There is a
Vatican Organization taking care of Prisoners of war who are coming back
to Italy. The Vatican has been asked by the Italian Foreign Ministry to
do all possible in the way of a welfare program to these people. I think
the information we have about them is quite complete.