in making the transfer. The papers were thereafter in
December, 1946 removed intact from the Archives in
Washington and transferred to the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library at Hyde Park where they since have been held in
storage for safekeeping pending a judicial determination as
to their ownership and ultimate disposition.
 
       The accounting of the Executors is now being prepared
and will be filed in the Surrogate's Court, Dutchess
County,New York just as soon as all legal requirements are
fulfilled. As part of the accounting proceeding, the
Executors intend to petition the court for a decree
determining that the papers of the late President Roosevelt
remaining in his possession at the time of his death were
effectively given by him as a gift to the United States
Government during his lifetime to be placed, maintained and
preserved in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park,
New York for the purposes of historical study and research
for all time.
 
        The present status of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
papers is as follows: The so-called "Map Room Papers"
relating to the prosecution of the war are still in storage
at the National Archives Building, Washington, D. C. 
under the protective custody of the President of the 
United States. All other papers released to the Executors 
are now in storage at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 
Hyde Park, New York under the protective custody of 
Fred W. Shipman, Director of the Library. The Executors 
have never had actual physical possession of any of the 
papers and the action taken by them has been solely for the 
purpose of safeguarding the papers and holding them intact
 
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