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SURPRISE POSTPONEMENT. The Bikini tests, 

 originally cheduled for May 15, 1946, were post- 

 poned six weeks by President Truman, to July I, 

 in order that members of Congress, knee-deep in 

 legislative problems, might better be spared from 

 Washington to serve as official observers at Bikini. 



ABOVE. Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey, 

 Commander of Task Group 1.5, the Army Air 

 Forces group in Joint Task Force One, reads^ a 

 San Francisco headline announcing the surprise 

 shift in dates. The delay gave more time in which 

 to perfect the set-up at Bikini. 



