THE NEW INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK A COMPENDIUM OF THE WORLD'S FOR THE YEAR 1920 EDITOR FRANK MOORE COLBY, M.A. NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1921 PREFACE Among the leading topics in the present volume-the nineteenth since the work began in 1898 and the fourteenth in the new series beginning in 1907-may be mentioned the following: The Presidential Election (article UNITED STATES), including summaries of the debates on the Treaty and other points at issue and the main features of the campaign; the League of Nations whose history during the first year of its existence is outlined under WAR OF THE NATIONS; and the long list of international quarrels, controversies, and partial settlements covered under WAR OF THE NATIONS and under the titles of the countries concerned, including the friction between France and England, the questions of German disarmament and reparations, the divergence of policy in respect to resumption of trade with Russia, Poland's war with the Soviet government, conflict among the Allies in respect to Poland, problems of Lithuania and the new Baltic states, Danzig, the Wrangel movement, Upper Silesia, the Adriatic Question and the Treaty of Rapallo, Armenia and the new Armenian Republic, the Turkish Treaty, the return of King Constantine to Greece, the Sinn Fein movement (article GREAT BRITAIN), spread of Bolshevism among Socialists (article SOCIALISM), difficulty between the United States and Japan, etc. Outside the political field the groups of articles dealing with labor subjects, agriculture, industries, and applied science are of especial importance, including AERONAUTICS; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY, INDUSTRIAL; topics in ENGINEERING; MEDICAL PROGRESS; MILITARY PROGRESS (with an account of the military reorganization act); NAVAL PROGRESS; SHIPPING and SHIPBUILDING; the articles on the respective industries and products, etc. The death roll, including the Empress Eugénie, Wundt, Howells, and many other famous names, is unusually long. FRANK MOORE COLBY. 332131 · AGRICULTURE, EDITOR FRANK MOORE COLBY, M. A. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS BOTANY, FOOD, FORESTRY, HORTICULTURE, IRRIGATION, ETC. EDWIN WEST ALLEN, PH.D., UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AND ALFRED CHARLES TRUE, PH.D., UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY (WITH ETHNOLOGY) |