PREFACE THOUGH We go to press with the fifty-ninth issue of the YEAR-BOOK earlier than has been possible during the past few years, and though much remains to be done before the many problems resulting from the Great War are definitely settled, we trust it will be found that throughout we have been able to give the latest available information, either in the text or in the 'Additions and Corrections.' To the countries for which recent census returns were published in the last issue of the YEAR-BOOK, the following are added in the present issue, viz., the United Kingdom, India, the Union of South Africa, Canada, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Federal States of the United States, Bulgaria, Chile, Czechoslovakia, France and several of the French Colonies and Protectorates (Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, West Africa), Greece, the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, Nicaragua, Norway, Sweden, Venezuela, and Russia. The section relating to the last-named country, and that dealing with China, have been specially revised. Egypt is still retained in Part One (British Empire) only because when the announcement of its new status was made it was too . late to transfer it to Part Three, where it now properly belongs. Conditions in Ireland have not yet reached the stage that would justify us in allotting to the Irish Free State a special section among the Dominions. But an account of the situation as it is at present will be found in the Introductory Section, which also furnishes information on the organisation of the League of Nations, the Imperial and Washington Conferences, and a number of surveys of world production (gold and silver, iron, steel, wool, cotton, sugar, etc.). As in past years, Mr. A. D. Webb has again revised the British Empire section, General Sir Frederick Maurice the Armies, and Mr. John Leyland the Navies. To them as to many friends all over the world we would express our gratitude for valuable co-operation. J. S. K. M. E. STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK OFFICE, MACMILLAN & Co., LTD., ST. MARTIN'S STREET, April 12, 1922. LONDON, W.C. 2. |