DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY

The following are additions to collections: papers of Gordon Gray, 1958 and 1975-76; newsletter and rosters, 1974-75, regarding the U.S. Military Academy's class of 1915; papers of Henry S. Aurand, 1968 and 1975; papers of J. Lawton Collins, 1944-45; papers of Milton S. Eisenhower, 1960 and 1976; and papers of Harry Darby, 1952-62.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Diaries series for the period 1953-61 (Ann Whitman File) are now open for research; the series consists of an estimated 28,800 pages. The memorandums in these diaries of White House conferences, recorded by Andrew J. Goodpaster, John Eisenhower, and occasionally by Bryce Harlow, Arthur Minnich, Jack Z. Anderson, Edward McCabe, and Robert Merriam, constitute a valuable and in some cases only record of these private meetings.

The following collections of clippings on Eisenhower are open for research: New York Times, Washington Bureau, 1912-60; U. S. Senate Library, 1936-54; Kansas City Star (microfilm), 1942-67.

Oral history transcripts have been completed for the following: Alan Shivers, George Douhtit, Henry Woods, Robert Lee Sherrod, Harrison Salisbury, Francis O. Wilcox, Dudley Sharp, William H. Simpson, Robert G. Storey, Milton S. Eisenhower, William Hopkins, Robert Seamans, Jr., James Stack, John A. Bird, Gordon Kidd, and Ray Moore. An interview with George Kinnear was recently received.

At least one document in the following collections has been declassified, although in each case the entire collection is not yet fully open: records of Gordon Gray, Robert Cutler, Henry R. McPhee, and Andrew J. Goodpaster, from the White House's "Project Clean-Up," 195361; SHAEF selected records, 1943-45; and the records of the White House Office, Staff Research Group (headed by Albert P. Toner and Christopher H. Russell), 1956-61.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY

The library has accessioned the papers of Professor Samuel Beer, an active participant in Massachusetts and national political affairs and a former past president of the Americans for Democratic Action, 2 linear feet; a collection of scrapbooks maintained by Mrs. Rose Kennedy from 1936 to 1946; and film, videotape, and production files of Charles Guggenheim, consisting of extensive campaign footage of Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, and many senatorial and gubernatorial candidates.

Poverty and Urban Policy, a conference transcript of a 1973 group discussion of the Kennedy administration poverty programs and policies, is available for deposit in institutions or on interlibrary loan.

Material recently opened for research includes additional segments of the papers of Walter Heller, former chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, and the general correspondence series of Robert F. Kennedy when attorney general. Also open are oral history interviews with Earle Wheeler, former army chief of staff, Millard Cass, former deputy under secretary of labor, and Fowler Hamilton, former director, Agency for International Development.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON LIBRARY

The library recently accessioned approximately 500 cubic feet of personal papers dating from 1930 to 1969 of journalist Drew Pearson. Extensive processing will be required before they can be made available for research.

Journalist John L. Steele has donated 4 cubic inches of weekly reports on Johnson's activities submitted to the editors of Time, 1953-68.

Openings of White House Central File categories include President, 47 linear feet, and White House Administration, 9 linear feet. The library has also made available for research records dated 1967-68 of Endicott Peabody, director, Sports Working Group of the United States-Mexico Border Development Commission, 1 linear foot.

The Records Declassification Division systematically reviews security-classified documents accessioned by the National Archives and Records Service. These consist primarily of World War II records that are at least thirty years old. Researchers should address any questions about the records to the unit holding them, bearing in mind that restrictions may prevent the release of some records even though they have been declassified. Significant records reviewed for declassification since January 1976 or currently being reviewed are described below.

CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION

NATURAL RESOURCES BRANCH

Various pre-1946 confidential files of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 6 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified.

LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND FISCAL BRANCH

Various pre-1946 records of the Bureau of the Budget, 30 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified.

DIPLOMATIC BRANCH

State Department records of Myron Taylor, the president's personal representative to Pope Pius XII, for the period through 1949, have been reviewed and largely declassified. Declassification of the State Department files of the StateWar-Navy Coordinating Committee through 1949, 50 cubic feet, has been completed. Review of the 1945-49 decimal files of the Department of State continued during the quarter.

GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION

Approximately one-quarter of the nearly 1,000 cubic feet of economic intelligence publications for the World War II period that were recently added to the records of the Foreign Economic Administration have been reviewed.

Declassification review of the remaining World War II records of the Bureau of Ships was completed, 3,146 cubic feet.

Department of State Foreign Service post records, for the period 1946-49, covering Paris, Athens, Salonika, Marseilles, and the Soviet Union, 47 cubic feet, have been declassified.

MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION

War Department records that have been reviewed and largely declassified include conference notes of the secretary of the general staff, 1938-45, 2 cubic feet; the minutes and notes of conferences relating to the Emergency Planning Program, 1938-45, 4 cubic feet; Patch and Simpson Board reports relating to the postwar organization of the War Department, 193846, 4 cubic feet; and general correspondence of the Administrative Branch, Public Relations Division, 1939-46, 36 cubic feet.

Records of the Combined Production and Resources Board, 1942-45, 178 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified.

Review of the World War II period confidential and secret message files of the War Plans Division/Operations and Plans Division of the War Department general staff continued.

HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY

Additional classified papers of Harry S. Truman and George M. Elsey have recently been opened.

The National Archives and Records Service publishes a variety of descriptions and guides to its holdings that are of use to scholars and the general public. These include inventories of record groups, special lists, and reference information papers. Inventories are general descriptions of and guides to documents in a record group. They provide a brief history of the agency that created the records and describe each series of records. Frequently, the National Archives publishes a preliminary inventory of a record group to facilitate access to its holdings. Preliminary inventories are less detailed than inventories but are similar in format.

Special lists are detailed descriptions of a series of records within a record group or of a subject or activity of an agency. Reference information papers describe material on a given subject that may be found in several record groups. As a rule these lists and papers follow no established form but vary according to the nature of the records to which they relate.

Earlier publications are listed in the leaflet Select List of Publications of the National Archives and Records Service. Microfilm publications may be purchased from the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS), National Archives (GSA), Washington, DC 20408, for $12.00 per roll. Most other publications may be obtained from the same branch at no cost.

MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS

Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (M881, 1,096 rolls), reproduces compiled service records of Revolutionary War soldiers. The service records consist of a jacketenvelope for each soldier containing card abstracts of entries relating to him from original muster rolls, payrolls, and other records. The descriptive material filmed on every roll in

cludes a list of the military units for which there are compiled service records in this publication. A name index is available as M860. Marie Allen, Claudia Bradley, Cynthia Middleton, Sarah Powell, and George Anna Welch arranged the records for microfilming.

Records of the United States Nürnberg War Crimes Trials: United States of America v. Wilhelm von Leeb et al. (Case XII), Nov. 28, 1947Oct. 28, 1948 (M898, 69 rolls), introduction by John Mendelsohn, is the ninth in a series of twelve microfilm publications reproducing case records of the U.S. tribunals that prosecuted 185 war criminals at Nuernberg. In the von Leeb case fourteen German generals as principal defendants and seven as unindicted coconspirators were tried for a variety of crimes, including crimes against the peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and a common plan and conspiracy to commit crimes. Eleven generals were found guilty and sentenced to various terms ranging from five years to life imprisonment. Reproduced are English and German transcripts of daily proceedings before the tribunals, prosecution and defense exhibits, and document books containing English translations of the exhibits and an indication of the sequence in which they were presented in court, briefs, pleas, the official court file, court orders and judgments, and clemency petitions. Finding aids for transcripts, exhibits, and document books are on roll 1.

Letters and Telegrams Sent by the Confederate Quartermaster General, 1861-65 (M900, 8 rolls), introduction by Michael P. Musick, reproduces seventeen volumes of both fair and press copies of outgoing correspondence. The Confederate Quartermaster General's Department performed a variety of logistical and other functions which included payment of troops; purchase, storage, transportation, and distribution of army supplies; procurement of cav

alry and artillery horses; construction of buildings on military installations; and the collection and distribution of the tax in kind on agricultural produce.

INVENTORIES

Records of the United States Naval Academy (Inventory Series, no. 11), compiled by Geraldine N. Phillips and Aloha South (57 pages, Record Group 405). These records date from 1845, the year the academy was founded, to 1927. Most of them were created or maintained by the Office of the Superintendent and include correspondence with the secretary of the navy, offices and bureaus of the Navy Department, members of Congress, and others; directives; administrative records; and records of reserve training groups that met at the academy during the two world wars. The remaining records were created or maintained by the Offices of the Commandant of Midshipmen or Cadets (executive officer to the superintendent), and the officer in charge of buildings and grounds; the academic departments; and the Board for the Examination of Midshipmen, the Academic Board, Board of Visitors, and other specially appointed boards. Curricula, enforcement of regulations, pay, working conditions, summer practice cruises, and expansion of the academy are among the many matters discussed.

PRELIMINARY INVENTORIES

Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Commission of Fine Arts (PI 79, revised), compiled by Dorothy S. Provine (85 pages, Record Group 66).

Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Social Security Administration (PI 183), compiled by Debra L. Newman (19 pages, Record Group 47). The Social Security Administration, a major component of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, has its origins in certain provisions of the Social Security Act of August 14, 1935, that provided for a program of federal old-age annuities and authorized grants-in-aid to states for the administration of

unemployment compensation, old-age assistance, aid to the blind, and aid to dependent children. Dated from 1934 to 1963, the records described in this preliminary inventory total 374 cubic feet and consist of the files of the executive director of the Committee on Employment Security and his staff and records of the Social Security Board, its executive director, and its central file organization. There are only a few records of the Social Security Administration itself, although some are filed with the Social Security Board records.

Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Children's Bureau (PI 184), compiled by Carmen Delle Donne (30 pages, Record Group 102). The Children's Bureau was established in the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1912 to investigate and report on infant mortality, maternity care, working mothers, the birth rate, orphanages, juvenile delinquency, desertion, child labor, child health, and state and local administration of child welfare. The records document conditions of child life in the United States, the role of the federal government in child welfare, and the influence of social workers and reformers on federal policy. They include the central correspondence file, 1912-40, indexed by correspondent and arranged by subject, providing ready access to the bureau's principal body of records. An abridged classification scheme appears in the preliminary inventory. Also included are records relating to bureau publications on child labor and the administration of federal aid to states for the development of programs of maternity care, welfare and health care for children, and care of crippled children.

GENERAL INFORMATION Leaflets

Documents From America's Past-GIL no. 13, revised.

MISCELLANEOUS

Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (256th-291st), Part XI, which is no. 71 of the series of guides to German records microfilmed at Alexandria, Virginia, has been published. Guide no. 71, with an introduction by Robert Wolfe, describes rolls 1795-1917 of Microfilm

Publication T315: 123 rolls, the records of twenty-three German divisions including the 256th, 257th, 276th, and 277th Volksgrenadier Divisions. The records include material on forming and training the units; border security in Germany, 1939-43, in Belgium and Norway, 1943, and in France, 1944; occupation and security duty and training in Poland, 1939-41, and in Czechoslovakia, 1939 and 1944; the campaign in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, 1940; occupation and security duty and coastal defense in Denmark, 1940, and in France, 194043; offensive engagements, training, and se

curity duty in Lithuania and Latvia, 1941; the campaign against the Soviet Union, 1941-44; coastal defense, training, and security duty in Norway, 1942-43; coastal defense and operations against partisans in Yugoslavia, 1943; and offensive and defensive operations in France and Germany, 1944-45.

Volume 28 of the Territorial Papers of the United States has been published. The second of two volumes on the Wisconsin Territory (1836-48), volume 28 completes the project for territories east of the Mississippi River.