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the cargo, but we won't know until we get the manifests. That  
means we are assured of a supply line of food for the next month  
or so.  
 
 
Mr. Taylor: Two weeks ago we mentioned sending an inquiry sometime ago to   
American Relief for Italy concerning whether a sturdy rebuilt or new   
shoe could be made in large quantities at a low cost. The answer to that   
was by "re-lasting, spraying, patching and cleaning, they can produce   
sturdy rebuilt men's shoes at 1.10 a pair"--but, as stated, the National   
War Fund has refused solicitation of money. I wonder if UNRRA could spend   
money for that purpose?  
 
 
Mr. Keeny: We are doing that. A plant in North Carolina is working on army   
salvage. It is to be done in the United States for the whole UNRRA program   
in all countries. What we can get for Italy is always a problem because of   
the fact that the United Nations gets first crack at it, and I have to take   
what is left or put on special pressure to get anything of that sort which is   
in short supply. We are still laboring under a very serious handicap in   
that our program for this year is guided by the decisions of the   
conference last September at Montreal. We are hoping at the next council  
meeting there will be a liberalizing of arrangements so that we can be   
more helpful, but for the immediate future about all we can get for Italy   
will be food and medicines. We will have to rely on American Relief for   
Italy as heavily as possible for milk and clothing, We will have some   
shoes--more than are necessary for the refugees, and the United Nations,   
and we will work out a plan for distributing those. I have asked them to   
let us have all we can possibly get under the resolution.  
 
 
Mr. Barr: We have just given 200 pairs of fine new heavy shoes with rubbers   
to the malarial workers in the Pontine Marshes.  
 
 
Mr. Taylor: How did you distribute the shoes to those people? Are those   
men permanent employees in that work, or do some of them work today and   
go away tomorrow? If they did, there would be a great waste of shoes for   
that purpose.  
 
 
Prof. Canaperia: They are permanent workers for the Department of Health,   
and they work for all the malarial season.  
 
 
Ing. Vicentini: We gave 200 men each a pair of wore shoes and rubbers,   
canvas coverails and canvas jackets and a pair of pants.  
 
 
Mr. Keeny: We have a special problem in that our clothing will be  
subject to certain limitations as to where it goes, but I think if we  
can sit down with Mr. Barr and the others, we can work out a practical   
plan to use our total resources to cover these needs and get the supplies   
to the places where they are most needed.  
 
 
Mr. Taylor: I think resolutions are flexible in practice--because in   
reality people cannot sit down at a table in America and determine where   
relief is most needed in Italy; I don't think that is intended. I find more   
in your regulations passed by a committee in Washington that tie your hands   
than they were tied at Montreal; Montreal didn't tie them too tight.  
 
 
Mr. Keeny. We thought they were very reasonable considering those   
resolutions were passed in wartime. I don't think we will have any trouble   
deciding what to do with the supplies after they get here.  
 
 
Mr. Tailor: On the shoe question--if UNRRA has the available supply under   
control in America and are producing shoes, there is very little we can   
do about that.