Mgr. Carrol-Abbing: About the clothing situation--I wonder if anything   
could be done for some of the instituions in Rome if we do find the clothing.   
The situation in some of them is very bad indeed. Many of the children coming   
to school from outside Rome are without clothing. They are usually the   
children coming from former battle areas.
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: All the clothing distribution is settled up-to-date?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: Until Ing. Vicentini can tell us what is unallocated. We   
cannot tell what will be left until Naples, Foggia and Rome are completed. We   
can then determine the next allocation. We know there will be some left.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: After distribution to Sicily and Calabria, we will have   
about 16,000 bales. We have 28,000 bales.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: You have 28,000 bales left aftar distribution to Frosinone   
and Littoria.
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: That is a good balance. These bales do not always   
contain children's clothing, do they?
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: Only a few have children's clothing; the most part   
contain clothing for women. There is also a quantity of cloth in Italy now,   
amounting to about 25,000 meters, that we can buy from the military. That is   
not free.
 
     
 
 
Col. McSweeney: May I ask Mgr. Carroll-Abbing--would it be better to   
distribute the unmade materials to the institutions than to the people?
 
     
 
 
Mgr. Carroll-Abbing: Yes, it would be more practical.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: Is it your intention that ENDSI buy this material and   
distribute it free? There is a matter of policy involved.
 
     
 
 
Mgr. Carroll-Abbing: It is a question for the government.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: We are making clothing for the children from the   
American material.
 
     
 
 
Brig. Parkinson: A great danger arises here as in the case of the American   
Red Cross in the early days. We are getting some clothing from other sources,   
and the question came up of whether it should be paid for. Mr. Jefferson of   
the Red Cross did not want to be mixed up in ahy way with any clothing that   
was sold. The Red Cross has always distributed on a free basis, and if it got   
home that relief clothing was being sold, I think the reaction would be bad.   
My own feeling is that if ENDSI is distributing on a free basis, that danger   
will be avoided.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: We were mentioning the material from America.
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: There are only 8,000 meters of that now here. We have made   
no special allocation for any group.
 
     
 
 
Ing. Galeazzi: Couldn't it be allocated for the special purpose of   
supplying clothing to the children in schools and institutions that Mgr.   
Carroll-Abbing mentioned?
 
     
 
 
Mr. Silber: It could if this council decided to recommend such.