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support efforts to get raw materials into the country We all should   
work together on this and move in the direction of getting the whole   
job back into Italian hands.  
 
 
 
Mr. Taylor: The 150 trucks have arrived, and part of them have been   
assembled and put into commission.  
 
 
Mr. Barr: Six have arrived in Rome; ten will come tomorrow and ten every   
three days. They come in convoys, and we have to keep the numbers small   
because they must move at a slow rate of speed.  
 
 
Mr. Taylor. American Relief for Italy has loaned the trucks to  
ENDSI, and ENDSI has established a garage for them.  
 
 
Mr. Barr: we have a complete motor pool under complete Italian operation.   
In that way there is no strain on the Military; it is all run by Italian   
mechanics. Parts for the vehicles are being sent by American Relief for   
Italy.  
 
 
Mr. Taylor: The trucks haul both ways.  
 
 
Mr. Barr: For instance, we hauled clothing to Ancona and brought  
back ten tons of eggs to Rome. The trucks haul both ways,  
 
 
 
Mr. Taylor: On the question of future supplies, I wrote a letter to    
General Alexander on March 16 in which I said in part...."In the interest   
of the National Committee for the Distribution of Relief in Italy and the   
Italian Red Cross, supported by American Relief for italy and other   
benefactors, I would like at this moment to bring to your attention the   
thought that upon the cessation of hostilities in Italy there will   
undoubtedly be large stocks of materials and supplies of all sorts, and I   
bespeak in their interest the first opportunity of acquiring adequate   
quantities of the same which would be of great benefit to the welfare of   
the nation and to the promotion of its reconstruction...... There is, of   
course, apart from the need for the usual materials and supplies, a great   
need for vehicles of all sorts, including passenger cars, trucks and   
ambulances. There is also a most crying need for tires, tubes and   
replacements for both Italian and foreign--made vehicles. Obviously the   
regeneration of raid transportation in Italy is a matter which will extend   
over a considerable period of time, and in the interim nothing can so   
helpfully bring about greater self-help and sufficiency in Italy than a   
sizeable, distribution of transportation equipment which must necessarily   
follow the end of the war in this country.  
 
 
               "I am basing this statement on the assumption that used   
equipment will not be to any great extent transported elsewhere, nor  
should it be, in the light of the necessitous destruction that has   
followed the use of this country as the first and an important   
battleground between the Allied and the Germans, with the resultant   
destraction that has come to Italy in consequence.  
 
 
Mr. Taylor: I sent copies of this letter to General McNarney,  
Mr. McMillan, Admiral Stone and others. There will come a moment  
wnen the war will. stop---and ENDSI, being a permanent, national   
agency ought to be the first one in the field and ready to acquire   
through the Italian Government everything it can use for its relief   
activities.  
 
 
Mr. Keeny: Following the meeting, I think it would be advantageous  
if this smaller group got together and worked out the details on