Front page of the Damascene newspaper al-Mufid, printed on Thursday, July 3, 1919. The first article titled “Fi Sabil al-Watan” (for the homeland’s sake) is directed to the youth; author Jamil Merdem Bik extols the “noble and patriotic...
Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Travel -- Sources ; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Records and correspondence
Schedule of Commission appointments and interviews in Constantinople, on July 31. Several handwritten additions and annotations.
Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- History -- Sources; King, Henry Churchill, 1858-1934 -- Correspondence; Bohn, William Frederick, 1878-1947 -- Correspondence; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey....
Henry Churchill King writes to William Bohn from the American destroyer ''Hazelwood,'' en route from Syria to Constantinople through the Dardanelles, detailing the Commission's experiences in the area, as well as King's impression of Emir Faisal.
Yale, William, 1887-1975 ; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Records and correspondence ; Palestine -- Religion ; Syria -- Autonomy and independence movements
Report produced by Captain William Yale in July 1919, in which he calls sentiments of national feeling an orchestrated manifestation of propaganda.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Territorial questions -- Middle East -- Sources; Syria -- Autonomy and independence movements
This handwritten petition, signed by 27 members of building trades in Tripoli, in addition to signatures and seals from mukhtars (heads of guilds), calls for the complete political independence of Syria, the rejection of French claims on Syria, and...
Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- History -- Sources; King, Henry Churchill, 1858-1934 -- Correspondence; Bohn, William Frederick, 1878-1947 -- Correspondence
Letter from Henry Churchill King, President of Oberlin College, to William Bohn, his assistant, in which he briefly mentions the compilation of the Commission's report on Syria, and his personal role in finalizing it.
Crane, Charles Richard, 1858-1939 ; Brodie, Donald Melrose, 1890-1974 ; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Officers -- Sources
This sympathetic profile of Charles Crane, most likely written by Donald Brodie, Commission secretary and longtime colleague of Crane, outlines the unique role that Crane played in the Commission's work.
Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Records and correspondence ; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Travel
Schedule of delegations to be received in Baalbek, including the town council, the Ulema, Christian ladies, and village Muktas.
Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Records and correspondence ; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Travel
Schedule of Commission appointments with delegations in Adana, which include the Vali, Ulema, and numerous religious groups.
Petitions -- Lebanon -- Tripoli -- History ; Beirut (Lebanon) -- Autonomy and independence movements ; Syria -- Autonomy and independence movements ; Faysal I, King of Iraq, 1885-1933
Copy of a petition presented to the Commission by Muslim women in Beirut, requesting the unity of Syria, rejecting European claims, and asking for the rule of Emir Faisal.
Bristol, Mark L. (Mark Lambert), 1868-1939 -- Correspondence ; United States. American Commission to Negotiate Peace -- History -- Sources ; Greeks -- Turkey
Copy of a coded dispatch sent from High Commissioner Mark Bristol in Constantinople to the American Mission to Negotiate Peace in Paris, in reference to guerilla warfare between Greeks and Turks in Smyrna.
Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Records and correspondence ; Armenian question
Notes from a meeting between the Commission and the Committee for the Protection of the Six Oriental Vilayets, which discussed a peaceful settlement of the Armenian situation.
Lybyer, Albert Howe, 1876-1949 -- Correspondence ; Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953 -- Correspondence ; Inter-allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey. American Section -- Records and correspondence
Letter from Albert Lybyer to Major Royal Tyler, requesting that a particular box containing documents from the Balkan division be located and sent to his wife in Illinois.
Bristol, Mark L. (Mark Lambert), 1868-1939 -- Correspondence ; Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) -- Armenia
Copy of a coded dispatch sent from High Commissioner Mark Bristol in Constantinople to Hoover in Paris, discussing efforts to provide humanitarian relief to Armenia.
