The King-Crane Commission: A Study in Arab-American Relations

In January of 1919 the Amir Faisal arrived in Paris at the head of the Hejaz Delegation to the Peace Conference. His mission there was to press claims for a Near East settlement that guaranteed the unity and independence of the Arab lands. A champion in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, of which his father, King Hussein of the Hejaz, has been a prime instigator, Faisal hoped to convince the Western statesmen of what he staunchly believed to be undeniably the justice and right of his case.