U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson persuaded President Truman to transfer ten nuclear-ready B-29 bombers from the Strategic Air Command task force to Guam, along with partially assembled atomic bombs that contained "everything but the fissionable cores" [REF].
In Belgium, four workers striking over the "Royal Question" were shot dead by the Gendarmerie at Grâce-Berleur near Liège [REF].