Maps prepared by the General Drafting Company, and Copyrighted in the United States and Newfoundland, 1921, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & Co. T HE President of the United States, in his address to Congress, said that it seemed the wisest course to engage under the existing treaty (the Treaty of Versailles), with the omission of the Covenant of the League of Nations and certain other amendments, to effect a settlement of such European affairs as concern us. This presages the general approval of the United States to the territorial arrangements arrived at under the Versailles Treaty and its companion Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. All the other principal powers are likewise committed to these treaties. The WORLD'S WORK has felt that it is an opportune time, therefore, to present to its readers in the following sixteen pages an atlas of the world changes since 1913. The maps not only give the boundaries settled by the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty of SaintGermain-en-Laye, the Treaty of Rapallo, the Treaty of Sèvres, and various other agreements, but in explanatory notes they give the fullest possible explanation of the boundary changes consistent with the restricted space available when instant reference is required. The very large amount of work necessary to put all this information in so small a space can be imagined from the fact that it took nine skilled men, under the direction of two expert cartographers, 1097 hours of labor to produce the plates. The most striking phenomenon shown by these maps is the extent to which the principle of self-determination has shattered eastern Europe into small states. Another phenomenon is the appearance of mandate territoriesa new thing in colonial administration. In the Near East the expansion of Greece, due chiefly to Venizelos, whom the Greeks repudiated in the last election, is one of the most noticeable phenomena. Other points are that the Turk is still in Europe, and that the Near East still shows signs of its historic ability to be a centre of infection for international jealousy. FRANCE AND BELGIUM Doubleday, Page & Co. Showing the four small cessions from Germany to Belgium, and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France. France also received additional territory in Africa from Germany and a sphere of influence in Asia Minor from Turkey which are shown on pages 246 and 245 respectively EUROPE IN 1913 With middle Europe under the economically advantageous but politically incompetent sway of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire EUROPE IN 1921 Doubleday, Page & Co. With middle Europe divided into small states chiefly on racial lines; the economic readjustments necessitated by these subdivisions mean new channels of trade all over this area On other pages these changes are shown on a larger scale, as well as adjustments around the Ægean Sea and in the Near East ITALY, 1921 Doubleday, Page & Co. By the treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye with Austria-Hungary, and by the Treaty of Rapallo with Jugoslavia, Italy acquired the Trentino, Gorizia, and Istria, partially on a racial and partially on a strategic basis. Italy also acquired Zara and Valona on the eastern Adriatic coast |