restrictions on the property would be submitted to the
Surrogate's Court for a definite ruling.
 
V. Request of Navy Department for certain original papers
   from the President Roosevelt files relating to Arabian oil
   and financial aid to King Ibn Saud.
 
        Under date of March 14, 1947, the office of the Judge
Advocate General of the Navy Department requested the
following papers from President Roosevelt's files in
connection with a Congression investigation relating to
purchase of Arabian oil:
 
        (a) Memorandum prepared by the Secretary of State, dated
            April 16, 1941.
 
        (b) Memorandum from F.D.R to Secretary of the Navy, dated
            April 30, 1941.
 
        (c) Letter to Miss LeHand from John F. O'Keefe, Special
            Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, dated May 23, 1941.
 
        The foregoing papers were located by Mr. Shipman among the
papers now stored in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, but
for reasons of public policy, Mr. Koons advised Mr. Shipman
that the papers in question could be made available to the
Navy Department only upon request of the President.
Although the press has quoted Senator Brewster as stating
that he requested President Truman to direct that
photostatic copies of the papers be made available, no
formal request from the President has been recieved. The
papers in question are now in the possession of Mr. Koons.
 
VI. The status for income tax purposes of President
    Roosevelt as Commander-in-Cheif of the Army and Navy.
 
        There is a provision in both the Federal and New York State
Income Tax Law to the effect that a person dying while in
active service as a member of the armed forces of the
United States
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