King-Crane Commission

Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey
The first publication of the report in Editor & Publisher magazine in December 1922. The publication was described as a "Suppressed Official Document of the United States Government."
Created	1919, but not published until 1922
Author(s)	Henry Churchill King and Charles R. Crane
Purpose	Official investigation by the United States Government concerning the disposition of non-Turkish areas within the former Ottoman Empire.

The King–Crane Commission, officially called the 1919 Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey, began as an outgrowth of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and ended as an official investigation solely by the United States government concerning the disposition of non-Turkish areas within the former Ottoman Empire. It was conducted to inform American policy about the region's people and their desired future in regard to the previously decided partitioning of the Ottoman Empire and the League of Nations Mandate System. The Commission visited areas of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Anatolia, surveyed local public opinion, and assessed its view on the best course of action for the region. The Commission was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson and comprised Henry Churchill King and Charles R. Crane.

It began work in June 1919 and submitted its report in Paris on 28 August 1919. Its publication was initially suppressed for various reasons, and later reported by the State Department that publication "would not be compatible with the public interest". The Commission's report was ultimately published in the December 2, 1922 edition of the Editor & Publisher magazine.

The Commission's work was undercut from the beginning by continuing and competing colonialist designs on the part of the United Kingdom and France, as indicated by their previous secret agreement, their lack of a similar belief in public opinion, as well as the commission's late start, and encountered delays; the Paris Peace Conference had largely concluded the area's future by the time the report was finished.