THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK A COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD'S FOR THE YEAR 1921 EDITOR FRANK MOORE COLBY, M.A. NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1922 PREFACE The leading topics in the present volume-the twentieth since the work began in 1898 and the fifteenth in the new series beginning in 1907— include among others the following: The Washington Conference for the Limitation of Armament discussed under WAR OF THE NATIONS and NAVAL PROGRESS with text of agreements reached before the end of the year and summary of debates on the several issues; the conflicting policies of France and her Allies; the war between Greece and Turkey; the Upper Silesian Settlement; the reversal of Russian Soviet policy; the fall of exchange and the financial chaos in the countries of Europe; the question of German solvency; the menace of revolt in Egypt and India; the movement for Irish independence and the settlement reached at the end of the year; the second year of the League of Nations; Unemployment; the first ten months of the Harding administration, etc. Outside the political field the articles on industrial subjects, social economics, and applied science are of especial importance, including RAILWAYS, SHIPBUILDING, SHIPPING, WATER POWER, RADIO-TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY, AËRONAUTICS, AGRICULTURE, CITY PLANNING, and the groups of articles on Sanitary Engineering, and on the respective industries and their products. FRANK MOORE COLBY. 408502 EDITOR FRANK MOORE COLBY, M. A. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS AGRICULTURE, BOTANY, FOOD, FORESTRY, HORTICULTURE, RECLAMATION, ETC. EDWIN WEST ALLEN, PH.D., UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AND ALFRED CHARLES TRUE, PH.D., UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; E. H. SHINN (AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION); WALTER H. EVANS, PH.D. (BOTANY AND PLANT DISEASES); JOHN I. SCHULTE (CROP PRODUCTION); CARL W. LARSON (DAIRYING); WALTER H. BEAL (FERTILIZERS AND SOILS); HOWARD L. KNIGHT (FOOD AND NUTRITION; AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION); J. E. WELLINGTON (HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY); RAY P. TEELE (RECLAMATION); E. W. SHEETS (STOCK RAISING); AND WILLIAM A. HOOKER (VETERINARY MEDICINE). ANTHROPOLOGY (WITH ETHNOLOGY) ROBERT H. LOWIE, PH.D., AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL AND CLARK WISSLER, PH.D., HISTORY, LITERATURE, SMITH DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GERMAN LITERATURE AMELIA VON ENDE. INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND ARBITRATION CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, LL.B., SECRETARY OF THE MUNICIPAL NATIONAL LEAGUE AND MEMBER OF THE MOHONK CONFERENCE; FORMERLY PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF PERSONAL REGISTRATION, PHILADELPHIA. LITERATURE, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN W. B. PRESSEY AND DAVID LAMBUTH, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. LITERATURE (CONTINENTAL): SEE FRENCH LITERATURE; GERMAN LITERATURE; ETC. MEDICAL SUBJECTS EDWARD PŘEBLE, M.D., NEW YORK CITY. MILITARY PROGRESS C. DEWITT WILLCOX. COLONEL, U. S. A.; PROFESSOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES, U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY. |