  We measure the nitrogen abundance in 5 Turn Off(TO) stars of the Globular
Clusters NGC 6397 and NGC 6752, and compare the cluster abundances with those
of field stars of comparable metallicity. We determine the nitrogen abundance
from the band head system at 3360 \AA, using spectra of resolution R=45000
obtained with the UVES spectrograph on the VLT. We apply the same method
previously used on field stars, to allow a direct comparison of the results.
Nitrogen is found to have the same abundance in two of the NGC 6397 stars, in
spite of a difference of one order of magnitude in oxygen abundance between
them. In a third star of NGC 6397 the value is slightly lower, but compatible
with the other two, within the uncertainties. All the stars in NGC 6397 are
N-rich with respect to field objects of similar metallicity. The two stars in
NGC 6752 show a difference in nitrogen abundance by over one order of
magnitude. The same stars differ in the abundances of other elements such as
Na, O and Li, only by a factor 3-4. The behaviour of N is different in the two
clusters: no variation is observed NGC 6397, while a large variation is
observed in NGC 6752. This is consistent with a picture in which the stars in
NGC 6752 have been formed by a mixture of ``pristine'' material and material
which has been processed by an early generation of stars, referred to as
``polluters''. The N abundances here reported will help to constrain the
properties of the polluters. In the case of NGC 6397 a simple pollution history
is probably not viable, since the observed variations in O abundances are not
accompanied by corresponding variations in N or Li.
