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* Who succeeded Robert M. Hutchins in the job almost three years ago. Hutchins stepped up to the specially created post of chancellor, which makes him still boss.
Frankfurt was picked as the site of the two-year, $240,000 experiment mainly because it is in the heart of the U.S. zone. Some German scholars had grumbled that 34-year-old Frankfurt, one of the newest German universities, was too "young" for the honor of being first to...
Two years ago, ex-Prodigy Robert Maynard Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, received a longdistance call. It was from ex-Isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Said he: "What's this world government? If I knew, I might be for it." Replied Hutchins: "Call back in about two years...
This week, Chancellor Hutchins' Committee to Frame a World Constitution had the answer Lindbergh wanted. The draft constitution called for:1) a "federal convention" composed of one popularly elected delegate for each 1,000,000 of the world's population; 2) a chief executive and a legislative council...
The document was published at a time in the world's history when the need for such a constitution was more desperate and the chances of its adoption more remote than ever. Not even the drafting committee itself had been able to agree on the noble synopsis of salvation...