of the Roosevelt papers for that document. Mr. Shipman
reported that after a thorough search he was unable to find
the letter in question but that the files did indicate that
such letter was received by President Roosevelt and
subsequently forwarded to the State Department and
thereafter to the Navy Department and that there was no
record of its return from the Navy Department. Miss Tully
was thereupon requested, with the permission of the
President, to make a search of the papers still at the
National Archives in the custody of the President to locate
the letter in question. The original letter was not found
but Miss Tully did obtain from the State Department a copy
of a letter dated April 16, 1941 to the President with the
notation "(Original signed by J. A. Moffett)". In the first
paragraph of that copy reference was made to an attached
memorandum covering the situation in Saudi-Arabia. Mr.
Shipman found among Mr. Roosevelt's papers an original
unsigned memorandum dated April 16, 1941 which appeared to
be the memorandum referred to in the copy of Mr. Moffett's
letter. A copy of that letter furnished to Miss Tully by
the Department and the original unsigned memorandum dated
April 16, 1941 were forwarded to the President by
registered mail under date of April 21, 1947.
 
          Thereafter, on April 29 1947 the Executors
received a further request from President Truman to 
cause a search to be made of the Roosevelt papers for all 
letters and documents relevant to 
 
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