Mr. Taylor: What other things are there in the medical line?
 
     
 
 
Mgr. Carroll-Abbing: We have some food bars.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: We have 130,000 left. We will distribute these food bars   
once.  In fact, I think it has been decided to distribute everything once   
except the milk--and to distribute the milk every 15 days.
 
     
 
 
Mr.Taylor: What about the surgical sets?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Carroll-Abbing: The list is being prepared by the Italian Red Cross.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: One man came to get a set to take to Rimini. 30,000 people   
were taken out of Rimini and are now coming back. They have nothing in the   
way of clothing supplies.  I have talked to Brig. Parkinson and Gen.Hume about   
it. The American Red Cross sent 30,000 garments to Arezzo, but someone came   
down last week and told the Crown Prince that there had been no distribution   
there. I said I didn't think it was true because before Christmas the Red   
Cross made a distribution there.
 
     
 
 
Mr.Crawley: That material arrived in December, and all of one shipment   
had been delivered to that area, and another was on its way.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: You feel then that that has been taken care of?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Crawley: I know that 28,000 pieces of clothing went there on the   
18th for distribution. The communes should have received the distribution by   
now. An additional 15,000 pieces was held up because of transport, but since   
that time I understand it has been shipped from the warehouse. The town of   
Rimini has received over 30,000 or 40,000 garments. I know they have arrived   
and should be distributed by now.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Of course we are interested sympathetically with all areas,   
but that is outside the released zone for the present.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Carroll-Abbing: We have 1,290 first aid kits which have not been   
allotted yet.
 
     
 
 
Prof.Canaperia: Most of them should be distributed in the communes of   
the devastated areas.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: They are greatly needed in some of the more inaccessible places.
 
     
 
 
Mr.Taylor: Have the surgical sets been assigned?
 
     
 
 
Prof. Canaperia: Yes. The only thing is that the knives are missing from   
them.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: I wired to New York about that. The next subject is to   
consider whether we are justified at the present moment in making plans to   
distribute the new materials that are coming in to the area between our   
present operations and the line of the allied Military Government in the   
north which would take a line above Viterbo.
 
     
 
 
Mr.Silber: From the Italian Government line north to what is the army   
line is a substantial distance, and it includes a great deal of devastated   
areas. Rieti is the line of the north. The only town of any size on the south   
is Viterbo.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Are we in a position to say that when we have completed the   
distribution of the materials we have been discussing this