Letter from Donald Brodie to Professor Harry N. Howard, 10 November 1940

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My dear Professor Howard:
I have not yet been able to get at my files -
it has been a hectio autumn - but * can try to answer
your questions of October 26th.
1. I am reasonably certain that the two Commissioners*
President King, and'Mr. Crane, were personally selected
by President Wilson.  I am sure of this in the case of
Mr. Crane, who was an old friend and supporter of the
President, interested for many years in the Near East,
one of the founders and Treasurer of the Committee for
Armenian and Syrian Relief ( predecessor of Hear East
Relief), and a friend of President Bliss of Beirut to
whom was generally acredlted the origin'of the mandate
idea for portions of the Turkish Imjtire. Mr* Crane was
in Paris during the major portion of the Peace Negotiations
without any official status. On account of his personal
friendships with many of the American, British, and French
officials, and some of the officials of the smaller
countries suoh as Greece, Bulgaria\  and Arabia, he was
however In close touch with a good many of the activities
Of the Peace Commission. X am sure you know of President
King9s presence in Paris as Religious Work Director of the
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Professors Lybyer and Montgomery* and Captain Tale
wore, I believe, recommended to the Commissioners by
Professor Westermann with whom they had been working
for the Peace Commission. Professor I*ybyer was of course an
old friend of President King's from Oberlin associations.
I do not think that either of the two Commissioners had
ever known the other two advisors. My own connection with
the Commfeslon was quite fortuitous. I had had the privilege
Of knowing President King fairly well for a student while
at Oberlin, mot him while in Paris on leave from mybpost
with the Second Army Headquarters at Tou4, and he suggested
my connection with the Commas ion to which he had just been
appointed. I also knew quite well Secretary of State Lansing
and when the Seoond Army Headquarters was ^$&j|§&§&t£ wa*
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2. Toynbee and Hogarth were to have been the two British
Commissioners, and M. Robert de Calx one Of the French.
My recollections are not definite about M. Gout, I am
reasonably sure that no Italians were even tentatively