Mr. Barr: Yes. He is slowly going insane too. He has to be there so many   
days. Everything is moved down but it's no fault of the workmen the work can't   
proceed.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: Is it snow covered or just raining?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: There is snow on the hills above and the water is draining   
down, flooding the area. For 17 days they have never had more than two hours   
at a stretch they could worK.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Why not move the other two down immediately - since we  
can't control the weather?
 
     
 
 
Mr.Barr: They are going to start this week, despite the weather.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: While we are on the subject of those barracks - week before   
last I took Brig.Parkinson and Gen.Brown to two of the refugee camps in Rome.   
We had all gone out before, as you will recall, and everyone was shocked at   
the conditions under which those poor people exist in those places. We were   
discussing last week, in connection with the milk distribution in Rome and   
Naples, the question of giving milk in those two refugee camps (the number of   
children is unknown to us) and also: giving coffee to the adults in the morning   
so they will have something hot to start the day.  That idea seemed to be   
popular with our group, as you know. We then thought that perhaps instead of   
using the old unsanitary, cold buildings-- they have no, windows, are not   
clean, and most unattractive--we might use the four sections of the barracks   
that we intended originally for the two extra hospitals but which are left   
over because we have used more of the barracks in the erection of the three   
hospitals than we originally intended. With those four left over barracks,   
two at each of these refugee camps, we would provide two sections in each for   
the kitchen and distributing center for milk and coffee for those people--  
then have them clean, orderly and well managed. It would be the only bright   
spot among those terrible surroundings. We think that this is a practical   
idea and desirable; it is one we have to discuss and decide. The kitchens   
that were used in those places are not attractive. The buildings are not   
large enough, in my opinion. Do those two camps come under the jurisdiction   
of the Italian Government?
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: Yes sir. I understand that the refugees who are there   
were brought down from the front and continue to be brought down. Some of   
them there, however, came from Cossine and from the south, some time ago,   
months or more ago. The prospects of their being abandoned entirely do not   
seem to be very good. There is quite a refugee colony in Rome; there are two   
or three others outside Rome.
 
     
 
 
Mr:Taylor: The question is whether the National Committee will assert an   
interest in these Camps, starting with these two in Rome, and use some of the   
materials, milk, vitamins, and coffee, in those places. What do you think?
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: I agree the kitchens do not appear to be at all clean,   
but they could be improved. I think we should use the existing buildings -   
there is a hospital, it would be more useful to clean it up and put it in   
good shape--try to get windows in the kitchen, etc.