TOP SECHr Pavers, 1953-41 (tnn whitman file) Eisenhower: | raise obvious public relations questions. Nevertheless, Secretary Anderson repeated that he had no strong objection to adopting the alternative proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In reply to Secretary Anderson's argument that the specifying of U. 38. ports of entry would reveal our policy to the Communist countries, the President pointed out that there need be no public announcement that we were directing Polish vessels to certain ports only. Secretary Anderson agreed that this was the case, but expressed the view that this knowledge would leak out whether or not there was a public announcement. The President then said that he was inclined to feel that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had made a good point with respect to the specification of certain U. S. ports, although he believed that if no announcement were made as to the specifying of the ports, we might avoid the public relations problem. The Acting Attorney General said that the Department of Justice tended te favor the alternative proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, though Justice had no strong feelings in favor of this version or the version recommended by the Planning Board. General Twining said that the Chiefs merely wanted a somewhat tighter ccntrol of the Polish fleg vessels, while Secretary Ferter expressed himself as still strongly preferring the recommendations proposed by the Plenning Board. Accordingly, the President suggested that the State Department and the Joint Chiefs take a lit4l2 time to talk over the problem together and see whether they could not ecne up subsequently with agreed recommendations. Secretary Wilson said that he favored restricting the access of Folish vessels to a relatively few specified U. S. ports of entry. We should experiment on this besis, at least. Mr. Cutler, in response to the President's suggestion, seid thet the Plenning Board would bring up recommendations at ea later dsie on thet pert of the proposed ection which deelt with the denial of Folish vessels to U. S. ports. He suggested, however, that the Council act at this meeting on the other sections of the Planning Board's reccrs2nucation, which dealt with the problem of shore leave for ships' personnel on Folish vessels. He said he believed that the Planning Roard's recomendations on this point would be azreeable to the Council. i eeacee wre eee fe eater rare ecrccneseececcceneanace ese etwe eee eae ee ten e es Cea t eee e waa nenaennae eceeeswre see ere ee ee eee eee eee te tee 8 seer @eeteee ous ittt *: ‘ : e See ete eee mee ew eee me ews meee ease ce oneen "Te ee eee eee eee eee ee ee eT Oem ewe Oe ee meee eee TR CTH RE OR ee RH OE Re ETOH ODORS wae ete cee eneeeetanenes CeCe Ee we s* * . : eeen se @eeae eee REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHTD. EISENHOWER LIBRARY ser eeeeresenesvae eee eeoeoeoeeaestetvtanse hi ht i ee mw ee Tee eee ee eee eases ef Fr wee ee eee eee ne . eee eeeeenratetaneee : ee ee ee ou of . : scecue *eeeaetacese ava cee ewe ee tO ee eee ee maser eseaanene a a