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230 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. vii (1943)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0230 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD
IN PRESENTING this volume the special editor does so with feelings of gratitude
to the distinguished contributors and of satisfaction being instrumental in pre-
senting their views on the war and postwar problems of transportation to the
discriminating readers of THE ANNALS. These views speak for themselves. No
attempt has been made to guide or suggest the treatment given the subject and
considerable latitude has been afforded each author with respect to the scope of
his paper. An attempt has been made to have diverse opinions presented on these
important problems as they affect and will affect the lives of all of us to an extent
little appreciated by those outside the field of transportation who are inclined to
take them for granted. Business executives, trade association leaders, economists,
lawyers, public servants, scientists, and personnel specialists are found among the
authors of these papers, and a variety of shades of political and economic opinions
are reflected. All of these persons consented to collaborate in the volume despite
the pressure of work under which they are laboring, many of them in posts of
responsibility connected with transportation in the United States and abroad. The
papers do not, of course, represent official statements of position of the industries,
governmental departments, or other organizations with which the authors are
affiliated, but represent their own personal views on the subjects discussed.
Although the theme of war and postwar aspects of transportation runs through
all the articles, the volume is divided into three parts. The first deals chiefly with
the role of various agencies of transport-railroad, railway express, water, high-
way, and air-during this war of global proportions in which transportation is a
factor of vital importance. The second part of the volume contains papers in
which the transport problems of Great Britain, Canada, and Russia-war and
postwar-are presented and discussed from the points of view of those close to
those problems. The third part of the volume presents some of the many prob-
lems which now appear as postwar questions of particular urgency. The problems
suggested are not to be considered as the only ones which will confront carriers,
shippers, and the public. Only time and the progress of war will determine the
shape of many of the things to come in the field of world-wide transportation, the
proportions of which may well exceed the unprecedented demands of the present
war period.
The editor regrets the necessity of obtruding himself in the role of contributor
as well as editor, but the extra role was forced on him by exigencies beyond his
control. Several persons invited to contribute papers to the volume were forced
by the pressure of their duties either to decline to contribute the papers assigned
them or to request assistance of co-authorship in the task.
G. LLOYD WILSON

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