clothing, just surmising, the thought was to begin this week to study the area   
of the North up to the AMG line and then determine whether we wanted to   
distribute or ship this 500 tons, if it exists, in the North and use the   
materials now coming forward in the North. This is based on the question which   
we asked in the last meeting: whether the distribution thus far made in the   
devastated areas was adequate to the needs, so that you won't have to go back   
and repeat in those areas.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: You may find need in one specific location.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: That would be a small amount.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: In the south such locations as Potenza and Cosenza are heavily   
represented in the United States and haue made requests and written hundreds   
of letters to America about conditions in those provinces. I have read some   
of these reports when I was home. They were of considerable importance. I   
would hate to see us leave southern Italy before we had met the need there.   
They are so strongly represented in the United States.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: I should think you had better lock into that promptly. Is   
Foggia in this?
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: I spoke about it so often--some allocation has to be made   
for them.
 
     
 
 
Prof. Canaperia: Not for Potenza, but for Cosenza.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: You have 500 tons to draw on. Perhaps we should do that   
before we begin the study of the North.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: It could be simultaneous. You have over 2,000 tons of clothing   
coming in during February.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Will you organize a study of those two subjects, covering a   
resurvey of the south and of the north up to the AMG line?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: Yes, sir, as soon as Vincentini gets back; I am wondering,   
since Brig. Parkinson is here and the AMG line is mentioned, if some   
arrangements couldn't be made where an emergency exists that nobody else   
could meet, if in those specific cases they could be brought up and discussed   
like the Arezzo situation. They could be discussed jointly with AC, Red Cross   
and ENDSI tc see who could best do it.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: You want AMG in on that. I had a talk with General Hume last   
week. He is coming down in a few days. We could have a meeting and have Gen.   
Hume present.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: It would be unfortunate to go to a line with milk when you   
have desperate need a few miles on which perhaps the Fifth Army is unakle to   
supply, We should be flexible.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: There is a desire to cooperate. General Hume will cooperate.   
With the AC assistance we could do anything there. This is the general picture   
of the future--whether these ships should discharge cargo in Leghorn and   
transport it intmediately inland, or wherever the situation might disclose,   
is something that ought to be discussed.