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of countries, while Erling Kristiansen’s volume dealing with the
League of Nations19) describes that organization and its activities
and gives an excellent survey of the results obtained by the League
during its twenty years of active existence.
Two vital Asiatic problems that never before had been thor-
oughly analyzed in Danish political literature formed the subjects
of two recent Institute publications, the one describing the interests
of the great European powers and the United States in China,
espécially as regards foreign trade, investments, industrial ac-
tivities and railroad construction20), while the other, a book on
India, consists mainly of an up-to-date report on the political
development of British India from 1914 up to and including
events of the second world war21).
Apart from the books actually published, a number of manu-
scripts are still under preparation, including treatises on British
commercial policy between the two world wars; the foreign
policy of the Soviet Union; Latin America in the 2oth Century;
Turkey since 1908; and the Balkan countries after the first world
war.
In 1941 the Institute started a new series of publications,
the object of which is to describe the production and consump-
tion of several important raw materials. The first of this series
to appear was Jorgen Moe’s book on textile raw stuffs22), which
was followed in 1942 by Helge Andersen’s volume dealing with
coal, peat and lignite23), raw materials which, due to the present
war, have suddenly come sharply into the focus of Danish public
interest. Under preparation for this series are manuscripts treating
on grains, precious metals, and iron and steel.
To the literature on international questions belong also two
manuscripts on State budgetary problems which the Institute has
had prepared. One of these, dealing with parliamentary budget
control in several modern states and written in English, was
ready in proof for the final printing at a British printing-office
when the invasion of Denmark interrupted communication with
England. Its later fate is as yet unknown. The other manuscript,
in process of preparation at this writing, describes the budget in
18) Erling Kristiansen: Folkeforbundet. Organisation og Virksomhed (1939).
<2°) I. Griinbaum og Hanna Kobylinski: Kina og Stormagterne (1942).
^21) Erik Rasmussen: Indien. Sociale Forhold og moderne Historie (1942).
“) Jorgen Moe: Textilraastoffer (1941).
23) Helge Andersen: Kul, Torv og Brunkul (1942).