Each month or each week they render an account, and the Italian Government   
has to pay it. At the end of the UNRRA campaign, if the 50 million remains   
intact, it will be returned to the Government. In the interim they have the   
right to buy supplies for the use of other other countries--and to use   
transport and warehouses in Italy for supplies for other countries. It   
involves a great deal of bookkeeping, and the Italian Government pays the   
bills.
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: About the salaries of the American doctors who are   
coming over--that's not my understanding.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: The draft says that all expenses incurred in Italy will   
be paid by the Italian Government.
 
     
 
 
Dr. Zanotti- Bianco: In addition to this all expenses for the preparation   
of the work in America would be up to the Italian Government to pay. Naturally,   
the Italian Government is handicapped at present by the general situation, and   
the request from this organization of all those privileges, including the   
diplomatic privileges--is increasingly difficult--the full right of control of   
the activities of the Government must be maintained.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: The British and American Red Cross are here, too, and will   
give help if asked of them. In the refugee field we have already present in   
Itlay the Inter-Governmental Committee for Refugees, which is equipped with   
funds supplied by the British and the United States. We also have the   
President's War Refugee Board. There is the Refugee Committee of the Italian   
Government, which needs only the transportation to move the refugees about in   
the country, and these movements are not so great as to require international   
action. The refugees in the country, who came from within the country--other   
than military--I don't believe amount to more than 10 or 15,000.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Barr: Mr. Taylor is talking about foreigners in Italy. The only great   
group is the group in the southern part of Italy who were brought from the   
Balkans to save them from military persecution. They are a purely military   
problem.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: I think while great emphasis is on the refugee question, if   
you analyze it you find that there is a great difference between refugees and   
displaced persons. The number of displaced persons is really small. The   
refugee problem, as an international problem, is not a very big problem in   
Italy. I don't think we know the truth about the whole situation. Until we do,   
we cannot determine what the action should be. I believe the A.C. has a great   
interest in this subject. If you will all help to provide information about   
these several functions that UNRRA might be engaqed in here and their   
relations to existing agencies parellel these same activities, I think it   
would be very useful to everybody. I don't believe such a survey has been   
made.
 
     
 
 
Col. Mcsweeney: I don't know the Ambassador's attitude, but the home   
front is bringing forth controversy as to whether nurses should be sent over   
here. They are complaining that all the doctors are coming here.  Some are   
being urged to leave their practices in the States and come into UNRRA.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: How many people do you estimate that UNRRA has now?