Hardly Any Difference

Harry Truman, who is always getting crossed up, got crossed up with one of his warmest friends--earnest, tight-lipped John Snyder. Mr. Truman had boasted that by the end of the year the U.S. budget would be in balance. But Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, after making his calculations, said: "There will be a deficit of $1.9 billion." Last week at his press conference Mr. Truman said crisply that there was no real difference between Mr. Snyder and himself. Snyder must have been misquoted. Said loyal John Snyder: "President Truman said there was no difference between us. I reiterate that statement."

Last week the President also:

P: Announced that in these days of scarcity either white or black tie would be all right to wear at White House state dinners.

P: Received the resignations of Earl N. Cannon and A. Colman Barrett, two management representatives on the Wage Stabilization Board, who were "fed up with the Administration's vacillating policy on wage control.

P: Stayed away from the wedding of Henry Wallace's pretty daughter, Jean (see MILESTONES). Mr. Truman said he never went to these affairs. Mrs. Truman went, joining Mr. & Mrs. Wallace, Claude Pepper and others in crossing a picket line around the Wardman Park Hotel, where service employes were on strike.

P: Agreed with Senator Robert Taft that the Nu"rnberg trial would be "long remembered." Taft said it would be remembered "with regret" (TIME, Oct. 14). Mr. Truman hailed it as the "blazing of a new trail in international justice."

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