No Outright Violence In Continental France Foreseen by Hoffman

Several History and Government professors said yesterday that it would be difficult to predict the outcome of the current French crisis until Gen. Charles deGaulle and the rebel military government made clear their positions.

Stanley J. Hoffman, Henry LaBarre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, who will give a Government course on Modern France next year, commented that it is "foolish to speculate" about DeGaulle's prospects before the general's news conference scheduled for today.

Hoffman saw no prospect for any large scale violence in the present dispute, at least in continental France. He remarked that the present premier, Pierre Pflimlin, a Christian Democrat, has both "the energy and the short temper" he will need to cope with his present difficulties.