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HOW TWO AMERICANS PLANNED TO SETTLE NEAR EAST PROBLEM; Second Part of Long-Hidden Crane-King

Report Put Forth Definite Suggestions. CUTTING UP OLD TURKEY Powers Warned of the Dangers of

Selfish Division and Exploitation. PLAN FOR SEPARATE ARMENIA In Which by 1925 Armenians

Themselves Would Control--A Separate Constantinople.


December 4, 1922, Monday

Page 12, 27176 words

"The method of inquiry, in making our survey of the Asia Minor portion of our task, has necessarily differed from that followed in the study of Syria. For our ultimate duty, according to our instructions, is "to form an opinion of the divisions of territory and assignment of mandates which will be most likely to promote the order, peace and development" of the peoples concerned."



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turned up an archived NYTimes article published in 1922 concerning the Near East. It had references to the above article in policy mood regarding foreign policy and security issues.

“The consequences of living in a state of fear rather than a state of preparedness are enormous,” she said.

The 1922 article about this post Wilson document contains many refrences to the Near and Middle East as the year was historically between two major world wars. Submarines were already a menace. Diplomacy apparently walked a narrow path between securing recource rights in a world market, and local civil unrest due to trespass and intervention of developing nations seeking empire as a form of political dominance.