Truman Visit Meets Delay

Tentative plans for ex-President Harry S. Truman to visit the University in the near future have fallen through, it was learned recently. At the invitation of the United Nations Council and the Young Democratic Club, Truman had agreed to stop here during a trip to Boston this month.

In letters to both Jay F. Leary '60, president of the HYDC, and Martin G. Silverman '60, president of the U.N.Council, Truman explained that his Boston trip had to be postponed indefinitely.

According to Silverman, Truman is still working on arrangements for a stay at the University and will let the two organizations know if such plans materialize. It is fairly definite, however, that Truman will not make the trip until late in the term, if at all, Leary said.

"Truman is a very busy man; we don't start telling him what to do," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, remarked Thursday. Truman had planned to reside at Lowell during his visit. Perkins called it "something of an imposition" to invite "a man who is so busy," but he said there would be room for Truman in Lowell House whenever he could manage to come.