“If this book held nothing but the foreword by Herbert Hoover it would be still invaluable.” M. F. Egan
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Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
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“Taken not as a symposium, but as a chance collection of essays on urgent present-day problems, the volume is to be commended for its wealth of suggestion. The different authors speak with authority and offer programs of the highest interest. Each of the contributions printed separately as a pamphlet would have considerable influence; in this volume it is somewhat lost.” B. L.
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FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL. International commerce and reconstruction; with a foreword by Joseph French Johnson. *$5 Dutton 382
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“In the spring of 1919, when this book was prepared. American business looked forward to a tremendous foreign trade with devastated Europe and the countries previously supplied by European belligerents. As a preparation for this anticipated trade, Mr Friedman has reviewed the literature and statistics bearing upon the commercial policies and foreign trade of the world and has attempted to outline the changes which the war has brought, or will bring, in international trade and the opportunities for American business enterprise.”—Pub W