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VIII
PREFACE.
Stockholm, who have generously donated liberal contributions; and the
printing office, Norstedt & Söner — the publishers of the whole work
— who have effectively promoted the publication of the handbook in a
complete and appropriate form.
By a Royal Command, issued under the date of October 6th, 1912, the
undersigned was commissioned as Editor-in-Chief to undertake the work
of publishing the new edition, under such direction as should be afforded
by the Minister of Finance; the Editor was empowered to apply directly to
those in authority at the various State Offices for any information that
might be considered necessary for the execution of his task. On the
application of the Editor that he might be afforded the opportunity of consulting
with experts in the various questions with which the handbook deals,
the Minister of Finance called in a considerable number of specialists,
who should afford advice and information, and, where necessary, make
suggestions as to the planning of the work. Further, they were to advise
on the choice of authors, and on other matters which affected the
preparation of those parts of the work that fell within their respective
provinces.
As the first edition of the handbook had been published in French and
English translations, the primary object was to produce a German issue -—
principally in view of the Baltic Exhibition — by the beginning of the year
1914. By securing the collaboration of some hundreds of authors, and by
taking other appropriate measures, the Editor was successful in carrying out
the plan laid down, so that the German issue was ready for distribution at
the beginning of May, 1914. The original plan was for the Swedish
issue to be brought out next, and the English issue last; but, on the
representations of the Swedish Executive Committee appointed to arrange and
organize the participation of Sweden in the Panama Pacific International
Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, the Government had commanded that a
certain number of copies of the English issue should be placed at the
disposal of the Executive Committee, and that, for this purpose, the work
should be reorganized with the object of hastening the production of the
English issue, by giving it precedence to the Swedish issue. And by means
of pushing forward the work as rapidly as possible, the Editor has, in a
great measure, succeeded in achieving this object, despite some
complications resulting from the general political situation and other circumstances.
The authors whose services were relied upon for the first edition of the
book were requested, in most cases, to revise their articles for this edition,
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