Summary
President of Oberlin College, Ohio, designated with Charles R. Crane 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 “President of Oberlin College, Ohio” (lines 254-298).
- With Crane he signed the telegrams from Jerusalem on 20 June 1919 and from Beirut on 10 July 1919 reporting race feeling at its most sensitive, united Moslem and Christian hostility to Jewish immigration and sovereignty, an intense desire for the unity of all Syria and Palestine, and warfare as the likely result of a French mandate for all Syria (lines 477-711).
- He is a submitting Commissioner, with Crane, of the Report of the American Section, Paris, 28 August 1919 (lines 802-822).
Related pages
Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, King-Crane Commission, Charles R. Crane, Robert Lansing