Summary
Treasurer of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, designated with Henry Churchill King as one of the two American Commissioners of the projected Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey — the King-Crane Commission — in Secretary of State Robert Lansing’s letters authorised by Woodrow Wilson in April 1919 (Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, lines 254-404).
Details
- Lansing’s letter of 2 April 1919 identifies him by the footnote “Treasurer of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief” (lines 254-298).
- With King he signed the telegrams from Jerusalem on 20 June 1919 and from Beirut on 10 July 1919 reporting united Moslem and Christian hostility to Jewish immigration and sovereignty, an intense desire for the unity of all Syria and Palestine and for early independence, and America as the genuine first choice of most as mandatory because believed to have no territorial ambition (lines 477-711).
- He is a submitting Commissioner, with King, of the Report of the American Section, Paris, 28 August 1919, where the submission line prints his name as “Charles K. Crane” (lines 802-822; see the source page’s Open questions).
Related pages
Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, King-Crane Commission, Henry Churchill King, Robert Lansing