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CABINET MEETING, JANUARY 2, 1951 Atty Gen absent Secty Interior absent Perlman for A. G. THENTY GEN BRADLEY Briefed Cabinet on Korea. ARCHIVER RECORDS SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE THE PRESIDENT Instructed Sawyer, Snyder & Atty Gen to get together to block trans-shipment at Bombary (to China) of Branson Cargo - as it is endan- gering the security of the United States. ACHESON Allies proposal for meeting of deputies with Soviet has been os- tensibly accepted by Soviet but actually 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 sep up a Defense Production Administration which will do the job of the old WPB. This will steam up our production drive. 4:25