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The Barton-Howe “Report” and the Middle East, Past and Present

This entry was posted in notebook and tagged American Peace Commission Baghdad-Berlin Railway Balfour Declaration (1917) Barton-Howe Commission Barton-Howe Report Britain Col. Edward M. House Col. T.E. Lawrence Confessions of a Reformer (1925) France Frederic C. Howe Gaza Germany Gertrude Bell Great War James L. Barton Jews King-Crane Report League of Nations Mesopotamia Middle East Ottoman Empire Palestine Paris Peace Conference Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) Syria The Near East Crossroads of the World Turkey United States University of Munich William H. Hall Wilson’s Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson Zionism on September 16, 2014 by Richard Drake.

From the beginning of America’s direct strategic involvement in the Middle East, immediately following World War I, cogent advice abounded about how the region should be treated. Col. Edward M. House, the close friend and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, warned that a peace based on the old game of Western imperialism, however artfully disguised […]


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