Summary
Dr. Albert H. Lybyer, General Adviser to the American Section of the King-Crane Commission, author of the Historical Sketch that supplements the Secretary’s petition tables in the Report on Syria, and of the statement on the extent and boundaries of the proposed Armenian State that the Commissioners adopt as their own (Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, lines 871-880, 3181-3195, 5751-5908).
Details
- He is named among the Syria staff as an adviser, with Dr. George E. Montgomery and Captain William Yale (Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, lines 871-880).
- The Secretary’s tabular statements of Syrian opinion “need to be supplemented by a historical account prepared by the General Adviser, Dr. Lybyer”, which supplies the narrative of the inquiry by O.E.T.A. district, the General Syrian Congress program in full, and the Cilicia and Mesopotamia accounts (lines 3181-3954 approx.).
- In Section Three he is one of the three advisers who studied the Asia Minor material and summarised their inferences (lines 4931-5010 approx.).
- On Armenia, his statement “may well replace any other discussion of this question”: the Armenians should have a definite territory taken from both Turkish and Russian territory, taking into account their massacre losses of 1894-6, 1908-9 and 1915-16, estimated at one million, without being given an excessive amount of Turkish territory — the statement is cut off mid-sentence at line 5908, the end of part 2 of the ingest (lines 5751-5908).
Related pages
Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, King-Crane Commission, Armenia