Meeting no.10
 
     
 
 
Following are minutes of a meeting of Advisory Group concerning relief   
held 1945 in the office of Ambassador Myron C. Taylor, Chairman of American   
Relief for Itlay, Inc. Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone, Chief Commissioner, Hq.   
Allied Commission, attended the meeting at the invitation of Mr. Taylor.
 
     The following were in attendance: Brig. G.S. Parkinson, D.S.O., Director   
of Public Health Subcommission; Dr. Zanotti-Bianco, President of the Italian   
Red Cross; Mgr. John P. Carroll-Abbing, Director of Sanitary Services of   
Pontifical Commission for Aid to Refugees, Ing. Enrico Galeazzi, Architect of   
the Sacred Apostolic Palaces and Special Delegate to the Pontifical Commission   
of the State of the Vatican City; Dr. Lapponi of the Italian Red Cross; Ing.   
G.B. Vicentini, Executive Director of the ENDSI; Prof. John A. Canaperia M.D.,   
Inspector General of Public Health Department of Ministry of Interior; major   
John McSweeney, Public Health and welfare Officer Subcommission, Allied   
Subcommission; Mr. Sidney J. Crawley, Assistant Director of Civilian War Relief,   
American Red Cross; Col. O.J. Bizzozero, Public Health Officer of Region IV,   
and Mr. Joseph S. Silber, American Red Cross, Acting Assistant to Mr. Taylor.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: I asked Admiral Stone to come this morning to hear us sum up   
what we have accomplished up to this point and also to hear some of our future   
plans.  (Mr. Taylor gave summary sheets to those present)
 
     
 
 
Admiral Stone: Speaking for the Commission, and apart from any help my   
people may have been giving the efforts, the Commission is very apperciative   
and is very much impressed with what has been accomplished by this organization.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Thank you--that is very fine.  Summing up, we have had ships   
from America with delivery which was expedited beyond their origin pledges   
that were made by AFHQ.  About six million pounds of materials have arrived   
and all which have gone into the warehouses--four in Naples and one in Rome.    
We visited the warehouse in Rome this morning with Prime Minister and some   
members of the government, and found that a considerable quantity has already   
gone from the warehouses into the interior.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: Half the total amount has gone.  
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Will you state briefly where these supplies have gone.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: In the provinces of Pescara, Chieti, Campobasso and   
Aquila the supplies are almost completely distributed.  Shipments are now on   
the way to Frosinone and Littoria, and will be completed tomorrow.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: You had some difficulty with the weather?
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: yes but only for the communes of Aquila and Campobasso.
 
     
 
 
Mr. taylor: Has that improved?
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: Not yet.  Avezzano and other towns are blocked by snow.    
One truck has arrived in Avezzano, but four are blocked on the mountains about   
20 miles from Avezzano.  The supplies have arrived in the warehouses of   
Lanciano.