The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

A MAN of fifty-one, Sir James Arthur Salter has been an English official half that time and in his maturity an international official of utmost trust. Director of the Economic and Finance Section of the League of Nations, and General Secretary of the Reparations Commission, he has witnessed at close quarters the greatest traffic jam in history, the tie-up of politics, international finance, and trade which to-day has arrested the progress of every industrial nation under the sun. A classical scholar from Oxford, Sir Arthur can write English as can few other economists. Long service as a permanent official of the League has given him the breadth of outlook which is so conspicuously absent when our home-bred nationalists begin to talk of tariff walls, oil mandates, and big navies.