Summary
The Secretary of State who, on 2 April 1919, asked President Woodrow Wilson for authorisation to sign the letters designating Henry Churchill King and Charles R. Crane as the two American Commissioners to make inquiries in the portions of the Turkish Empire to be separated from Turkey and put under mandatories of the League of Nations (Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, lines 254-298).
Details
- His letter refers to the instructions agreed on 25 March 1919 by Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando; the appended designation letters are marked in a footnote “Neither printed” (lines 254-298).
- Wilson’s reply of 15 April 1919, presumably to this letter as the editorial footnote presents it, authorises him to sign the letters although the other Powers had virtually withdrawn from their agreement to send commissioners to Syria (lines 371-404).
Related pages
Report of the American Section of the Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, Woodrow Wilson, King-Crane Commission