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U. S. flag merchant marine fleet and the adoption of
Polthe program outlined by the Committee on Maritime
icy as an appropriate approach to the attainment of
that goal, subject to caveat that budgetary and other
goals
limitations might preclude the attainment of that
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that the program must stand on its own merits; and that
it be subject to generally applicable budgetary and
ether limitations.
e.
Noted the Cabinet Action of November 1, 1957, with ref-
erence to various matters affecting merchant marine
policy.
Agreed that, upon receipt of the current review by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff os shipping requirements, the
Secretaries of Defense and Commerce end the Director,
Office of Defense Mobilization, should re-examine the
mobilization base program for the merchant marine in
the light of the following additional factors:
(1)
(2)
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NOTE:
The relation between requirements for the merchant
marine fleet based upon commercial considerations
and such requirements based upon considerations of
national defense.
The extent to which the estimated over-all availability of the merchant shipping of allied nations
can be considered a supplement to U. S. merchant
shipping in meeting the requirements for defense
of the United States in time of war.
‘he action in e above, as approved by the President,
subsequently transmitted to the Secretaries of Defense and Commerce and the Director, ODM, for appropriate implementation. In approving e above, the
Fresident stated that he assumed thatestimated ship-
ping requirements would take full account of available
air transport capacity.
3.
DISSEMINATION OF INTELLIGENCE MATERTAL
The Director of Central Intelligence explained that he was
seeking the guidance of the Council on ways and means of making the
daily output of significant intelligence material more effective.
He
was proposing to change the format of the Current Intelligence Bulletin, with a view to placing the material in more convenient and readable form for very busy Government officials. To this end he asked
permission to hand around "a dry-run copy" of the proposed new format
for this daily Bulletin. In this new format the most significant items
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