Show PROGRESS SLOW DURING THE YEAR heavy taxes chaotic financial conditions and minor wars hamper recovery in 1921 OPE COMES NEAR ITS END washington conference Confert nce on armament I 1 limitation the mot most important event what president dent harding ings administration and the th congress have accomplished by EDWARD W PICKARD back to normalcy was the slogan I 1 of sot only in america but la in all the civilized nations of the world but minor wars internal economic disturbances tur bances financial conditions in europe widespread unemployment famine in russia and other hindrances hindrance made bade progress in the right direction slow low excepting perhaps in the united tates states when h the year a opened ned the peoples were groaning under the burden of 0 taxation and depression resulting from the world war As it drew to a close they were still groaning but had hopefully turned their thel reyes eyes toward washington where the representatives ot of great powers were negotiating inter national agreements that would erini inato some of the causes cause s of war ivar especially ally in the par far east and limit the means meana of making war in the success of this conference and of others that might ih grow ow out of it lay for the time being the hope of humanity efforts to enforce the terras terms of the treaty of versailles resulted in conflicts among some of the new nations created by that pact and several of the older nations mere involved in warfare germany working fast to I 1 recover her old position in the world of commerce was hampered by tile the disastrous decline in the value of the mark and her leaders protested continually that she could not possibly pay the war indemnity peace negotiations between the british government J and sinn feln were brought to a successful conclusion by which the irish free state was constituted |