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EVEN in these difficult times this annual statistical review of the world appears, not merely with regularity, but also with all its usual features and at the usual price. The task of revision has presented many obstacles, and for several States the discontinuance of official statistics has been a drawback. Yet the picture of the world in the opening quarter of this year is wonderfully complete. States now in enemy occupation appear in their rightful places: thus Poland, and Danzig, as well as the later occupied western States, retain their nominal independence. Czechoslovakia and Albania also have their places, but Ethiopia is submerged. Even the League of Nations still figures, but the list of non-members is now a long one. The useful introductory tables.give world production of petroleum, cotton, iron and steel, gold and rubber. A coloured folding map shows the extent of the U.S.S.R.,with indications of the various degrees of autonomy, ‘protection’ and influence attributed to the different constituent States and territories.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1940. Edited by Dr. M. Epstein. Seventy-seventh annual publication: revised after Official Returns. Pp. xxxviii + 1488. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1940.) 20s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 1006 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451006d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1451006d0