King-Crane Commission

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:parliamentary_committee
gptkbp:chairman gptkb:Henry_Churchill_King
gptkbp:co-chairperson gptkb:Charles_R._Crane
gptkbp:establishedBy gptkb:France
gptkb:Italy
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:establishedIn 1919
gptkbp:historicalSignificance first major Western survey of local opinion in the Middle East after World War I
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label King-Crane Commission
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:Inter-Allied_Commission_on_Mandates_in_Turkey
gptkbp:purpose to investigate the disposition of non-Turkish areas of the former Ottoman Empire
gptkbp:recommendation support for American mandate in Syria and Palestine
against the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine
opposition to French mandate over Syria
support for Syrian independence
gptkbp:region gptkb:Palestine
gptkb:Syria
gptkb:Anatolia
gptkbp:reportDate August 28, 1919
gptkbp:reportsTo gptkb:Paris_Peace_Conference
gptkbp:result report was largely ignored by Allied powers
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Charles_R._Crane
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6