STATESMANSHIP THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE WAR By J. ELLIS BARKER AUTHOR OF " THE GREAT PROBLEMS OF BRITISH STATESMANSHIP, modern germany," SECOND EDITION CONTAINING TEN ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO. CONTENTS OF "THE GREAT PROBLEMS OF BRITISH STATESMANSHIP" THE COMPANION VOLUME TO THIS BOOK I. THE PEACE CONGRESS AND AFTER II. THE PROBLEM OF CONSTANTINOPLE III. THE PROBLEM OF ASIATIC TURKEY VI. THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S POSITION VII. BRITAIN'S WAR FINANCE AND ECONOMIC FUTURE VIII. BRITAIN'S COMING INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY IX. DEMOCRACY AND THE IRON BROOM OF WAR The Times.-" Mr. Barker is always well informed, and he brings wide reading and great industry to bear upon these questions, which are at the moment of such vital importance, and all that he says is worth attention." The Morning Post.-"This learned and illuminating The Glasgow Herald.-" No one in the decade preceding the war did more to warn Great Britain and the world at Economic Statesmanship has been very kindly received by both Press and public. The 1,800 copies of the first edition were quickly sold out, and as there was a continued demand for the book the question of a new edition had to be considered. Some of my critics, while giving unstinted praise to the work, expressed regret that I had not treated in it various important economic problems which have come to the forefront since the time when the book went to press. Others complained that I had not made use of the numerous and very valuable reports published by the British Board of Trade and the Ministry of Reconstruction, the majority of which, unfortunately, appeared too late for consideration and use. As they had urged me to make good these omissions should a new edition be called for, I reluctantly resolved to undertake the labour of expanding and improving the second edition in accordance with their wishes. The present edition is a very greatly enlarged one. Ten chapters, running to more than 200 pages, have been added to the original fifteen chapters. About 100 pages of new matter are devoted to an examination of the economic position and future of Russia and of Japan, to the problem of the British Merchant Marine and of the British Inland Transport System, to the British Coal Problem, and to the Land and Housing Problem in town and country. In another 100 pages the relations between |