Page Four King Resigns from Grinnell Post .To Assume Vanderbilt Position Dr. Winston L. King, Rand professor of Applied Christian- ity, is resigning from the Grin- nell faculty to take a new po~ Eition this fall at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Ten- hessee. At Vanderbilt he will be firefessor of the history of re- ‘gions. He will be officially a member of the Divinity School faculty but will be teaching in the university itself at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Joining the Grinnell faculty in 1949, Dr. King was dean of the chapel until 1963 when he relinquished his chapel duties in order to devote more time to teaching and Writing. During the current year he holds the college’s James Morton Rob- erts Honor Professorship and is- completing his two year elective term as faculty chairman. Dr. King is the author of five books and has written numerr ous articles, book reviews, and chapters in books. His latest book entitled “A Thousand Lives Away,“ is to be published this year by Bruno Cassirer. Much of his recent writing has been based on his experiences and observations during a two year leave of absence, from 958 until 1950. During that time he was a visiting profes- sor and adviser to the Ford Foundation at the International Institute for Advanced Buddhis- tic Studies in Rangoon, Burma, for 20 months, and a teacher for four months at Ahmednager College in India. Before coming to Grinnell, Dr. King was minister of the First Congregational Church in Waterville, Maine. He received his BA. degree, magna cum Dr. Winston L. King laude, from Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, his B.Di and S.T.M. degrees from And- over Newton Theological Semie nary, and his Ph. D, from Har~ vard. During World War II he served in Europe as an Army chaplain. Dr. and Mrs. King plan to leave Grinnell about August 1. Apply Now For Week-in-Wasllington; Internships Provide Political Insight Competition has been opened tor the annual Week-ianashing» ton political internship pro- ‘gram, the Iowa Center for Edu- cation in Politics announced this week. Sixteen students from lowa colleges and universities will be selected to spend an expense- tree week in the Nation’s Capi- tal as guests of Iowa Congress- men. The students will go to Wash- ington in groups of two —— one a Republican and one a Demor crat. They will be shown the workings of the Congress and the political party headquarters and will be introduced to legisr lative and party leaders. The object of the intern- ships is to provide political and governmental insights that will encourage these young men and women to par- licipafe actively in the party of their choice after gradua- tion. Congressmen S c h w e n g e1 :(Rep., Davenport), and Smith (Dem., Altoona) will host the interns. To be eligible for Uhe intern- ship awards, students must be residents of lowa and have above average scholastic stand- ing. Preference will be given to juniors and to those who have demonstrated an interest in politics or who have shown leadership in political and cam- pus life. “I would urge students from the non-social sciences, as well as social science majors ‘to take advantage of this unique opportunity to observe first-hand how political de- ,cisions are made in Washing ton," observed C. Edwin Gil- mour, Director of the Pro- gram in Practical Political Education. Application forms are avail- able from him in Room 207, Carnegie Hall. The completed forms must be submitted on, or before February 14. Sludents’ Escapade Sends Two to Court Grinnell students Ralph Al» lan Brauer, 18, and Charles Thomas Pyle, 18, are scheduled to appear at a 1:30 pm. hear- ing Feb. 6, in Municipal Court in Des Moines in connection with the Jan, 16 theft of Drake University fraternity and soro- ity house signs. ‘ The two students, arrested about 3 a.m. Jan. 16, in Des Moines and charged with grand larceny, pleaded innocent to the charges and were released without bond until the hearing. Pyle also pleaded innocent to charges of injury to city prop- erty. . SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. January 24. 1954 Hoffmann Views fifth Republic:— Its Political System Am! Society By Susan Taylor There are two sides to the post-war problems of France, according to Professor Stanley Hoffmann, Rosenfield Lecturer, These are the continuing troubled history of French poli- tics, caused by the presence of so many political parties, and th e transformation of the French society in the period fol» lowing 1945. Speaking on ”France Under the Fifth Republic,” Hoffmann, professor of government at Harvard University, Wednesday night analyzed the problem and discussed the background. the quest for political stability un- der De Gaulle, and the pros» pects for the future. “In spite of the hopes of re- juvenation and regeneration which followed world War ii, the French were not able to solve the basic problems of the instability of the political sys tem,” he said, The society was divided on fundamental issues, I-loifmann explained. These included ewv nomic and social divisions which were not necessarily re- lated to the equally prevalent divisions on an ideological ba- sis and a "division of the tem— per itself.” Hoffmann explained that folr lowing the war, under the gov- ernment of the Fourth Repub- lic, a new role of the state emerged. “The state was for the first time able to play an important role in French so- ciety and Fiench economy." He explained that the impact of the transformation of the so» ciety under the Fourth Repubr lic had no effect on the politi- cal system. T h e economic changes only contributed to the weakening of the historically messy political system. Under General De Gaulle, who took over the government in May, 1958, Hoffmann said that the social and economic transformation Continued and accelerated. But, he said, under De Gaulle's fifth Republic the changing society has benefitted from political stability. According to Hoffmann, De Gaulle believes that the French state must be preserved at all costs against the accidents of history; that the state must be REGISTERED BRIDAL CONSULTANT Dresses for You and your Attendants INVlTATlONS — RECEPTION By Appointment Only fairs. Irving Fishman I709 MANOR DRIVE 236-4419 GRINNELL constructed “as the common framework and the guiding force of the nation”; and that the state must be a republic. Under the di sions in the French society, there is a “la- tent general will,” and only the executive can awaken this will. Parliament cannot, because of the many divisions it has within itself. De Gaulle, according to Hoffmam‘l, realizes that the di- visions on the surface of the so- ciety are realities reflected only too accurately by the parlia- ment — which leads to “a per- fect recipe for deadlock," ac— cording to Hoffmann. “De Gaulle has become the dominant element in the sys- tem,” Hoffmann Said. He has imposed a strong executive over the parliamentary republic. In his constitutional reforms of 1962, he further strengthened his position by having the pres- ident elected by universal sub frage. But, Hoffmann explained, the stability imposed by consoli- dating the dominancy of the presldency, and by attempting to force the parties out of their grooves to fight for the election of the President instead of par. liamentary seats, is brought “'1‘ to question by me problem of succession. What will happen when France no longer has De Gaulle, Hoffmann said, is the question most Americans ask. In asserting the prospects. Hoffmann pointed out: the lim fations of the present constiiu. tional system. “The bottle neck lies with the parties,” he said, He also pointed out the tension between the old parties, and the new forces, essentially non-p0. iitical pressure groups and “think groups” which are play. ing an active role in the eco. nomic and social machinery of the government. "De Gaulle hopes to reshape the relation between society and power,” and to reshape the parties, Hoffmann asserted. He must reshape the political sys- tem such that it will outlast him. 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