Edward W. Fox '35, assistant dean of the College, will leave the University this weekend to take up a post in Washington with the State Department, where he has been offered a position as political analyst in the Secretariat.

Fox's new duties as political analyst will include providing a background in European history which the Secretariat will use in its preparation of material for the daily staff meetings of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius.

Was Vice-Counsellor of Veterans

Since December, Fox has spent almost his entire time assisting Payson. S Wild '30, associate professor of Government, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and noting counsellor for veterans, as assistant counsellor in the newly-founded office. He will be replaced by Wilbur J. Bender, '27, now at Andover Academy, when the veterans' aid department is revamped in July.

As assistant dean of the College, a post which he has held since April, 1942, Fox's duties led him to do most of his work in the Freshman Dean's office. Fox also spent a great deal of time with the School for Overseas Administration a year ago.