Abstract
SINCE 1758 the Annual Register has not failed to make its yearly appearance. The current volume maintains all the established traditions of the series. More than half the volume is occupied with the history of the year, first and in most detail British and Imperial, and then foreign history. For 1940 these chapters are virtually a history of the War and of Nazi intrigue. The story is told objectively. The remainder of the volume has the usual summary reviews of literature, art, finance and law, and obituaries of distinguished men and women. The public documents, printed in full, include notes regarding United States destroyers and naval and air facilities for the United States in British transatlantic territories; Memorandum of Agreement with General de Gaulle regarding French Forces; the Three–Power Pact of Germany, Italy and Japan; and the Norwegian Government's White Paper of April 1940 on German Aggression in Norway.
The Annual Register
Dr.
M.
Epstein
A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the year 1940. Edited by. Pp. xiv + 478. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 35s. net.
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The Annual Register. Nature 148, 180 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148180c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148180c0