King-Crane gets implemented

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After WW1 President Wilson sent the King-Crane commission to the Ottoman territories to decide what should happen to them. The report went nowhere partly because the British and French didn’t like it and partly because in envisaged a US much more interventionist than the US was prepared to be in the 1920s.

Highlights
A “Big” Syria – OTL Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Jordan. A democratic kingdom with some suggestion of federalisation or decentralisation to protect Christians and Jews. Zionism rejected as inpossible to implement with our harm to the local population but a feeling that the Balfour idea of a “jewish hoeland” could be accommodated in the Syrian state. Jews could migrate there in large numbers and even settle together but nor create a Jewish state – they would be large minority in the Syrian state. The US was suggested as the Mandate power with Britain as a backup if she declined.

Mesopotamia – As our OTL Iraq, the three ottoman provinces of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul under a King with a British mandate

Kurdistan – Considered no definite plans for a new state bur would not oppose it but the inclusion of Mosul in Mesopotamia made it unlikely

A “big” Armenia – including the territories in OTL Soviet Russia and Ottoman Empire

A “Constantinopolitan” State – to keep the Straights open (Russia out of Constantinople) the city and it near by coastline to become a sovereign and international free city.

Cilicia – Considered giving it to Syria or linking to Armenia but ended up recommending it stay in Turkey

Consequences?
US would have to be a world player – taking a Mandate, being active in League of Nations (what implications for the 1930s in that?)

Taken along side the Greek annexation of Smyrna (which in this TL might succeed) Turkey would be smaller and weaker.

Two new big Arab states (Mesopotamia and Syria) which are at least potentially US friendly. The commission found that the Arabs trusted the US not to be “selfish”, and would just put up with the Brits but really hated the French).

Less Jewish migration to *Syria – no 1948 war would presumably mean that the Jews in other Arabs states would largely stay were they were - Alexandria, Morocco, Baghdad etc.

Jewish migration in 1920.30/40 and after WW2 would be to where – the US, S. America, Australia

If after ww2 there was still allied desire for a Jewish state *Syria seems not to be a viable option – so where else?

What would *Turkey do during ww2?

Would *Syria join the Allies in WW2?
 
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