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THE appointment of a special committee of inquiry into the subject of calendar reform was the natural result of movement which had been gathering force for some twenty years at least. Before the outbreak of the War, chambers of commerce and other bodies had agreed in expressing a strong desire for amending certain defects and inconveniences in the existing calendar, and on the termination of the War and the establishment of the League of Nations, it was almost inevitable that a matter so largely bound up with the commercial and industrial life of the nations in general should be taken in hand by the League.
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Reform of the Calendar. Nature 120, 919–920 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120919a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120919a0