CABINET MEETING, JANUARY 2, 1951
Atty Gen - absent
Secty Interior - absent
Perlman for A. G.
GEN BRADLEY
Briefed Cabinet on Korea.
THE PRESIDENT
Instructed Sawyer, Snyder & Atty Gen to get together to block trans-shipment at Bombay (to China) of Branson Cargo - as it is endangering the security of the United States.
ACHESON
Allies proposal for meeting of deputies with Soviet has been ostensibly accepted by Soviet but actua1ly it had been rejected. We are now in conversations with French & British to see what we do next.
BRANNAN
We have had a set back in our program in Mexico to prevent hoof & mouth disease but it is confined to one ranch which has been quarantined and fumigated. This is the first evidence of the disease in Mexico for 11 months.
WILSON
The time has come to step up a Defense Production Administration which will do the job of the old WPB. This will steam up our production drive.
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