CONTENTS // PRESENTATION... // PREFACE ... // ABBREVIATIONS... // INTRODUCTION... // CHAPTER ONE // 1. BEGINNINGS OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN // STATE AND THE USA... // 2. FIRST WORLD WAR... // a. The War to End All Wars... // b. Intervening Russia... // c. Secret Treaties... // d. Inquiry and Wilson’s Points... // e. Mandate System... // 3. PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE... // a. Council of Four... // b. Occupation of Izmir... // c. Divided American Public Opinion and Debates on Mandate. // d. American Delegations of Inquiry... // e. King-Crane Commission... // CHAPTER TWO // 1. THE PROCESS OF THE COMMISSIONING OF THE HARBORD // MILITARY MISSION... // a. The Morgenthau Project: Disguised American Mandate... // b. Establishment of the Commission and Preparations... // 2. INVESTIGATION TRIP TO ANATOLIA... // a. Istanbul: Arrangements and Period of Final Preparation. // b. Admiral Bristol Factor... // c. The Dunn Report... // d. The Niles-Sutherland Report... // e. Efforts of Independence in Occupied Istanbul... // f. Inquiries on the Middle and Eastern Anatolia... // g. Mustafa Kemal Pasha-General Harbord Meeting... // VII // IX // XI // 1 // 3 // 7 // 10 // 11 // 15 // 17 // 20 // 24 // 25 // 31 // 34 // 37 // 40 // 47 // 48 // 54 // 63 // 63 // 65 // 67 // 69 // 73 // 78 // 84 // VI // CONTENTS // h. Last Part of the Trip through Anatolia... 95 // 3. INQUIRY TRIP TO THE CAUCASUS... 99 // 4. FINAL INQUIRIES... 104 // CHAPTER THREE // 1. VIEWS FOR AND AGAINST AN AMERICAN MANDATE...
109 // 2. THE FINAL REPORT AND APPENDICES... 113 // a. An Assessment of the Regional History... 117 // b. Current Situation and Problems in the Region... 120 // (1) Demographic Structure in the Region... 120 // (2) Extensive Opposition to Armenians and its Consequences. 121 // (3) An Assessment of the Regional Politics... 124 // (4) An Assessment of the Military Situation in the Region.. 128 // (5) An Assessment of the Economic Situation in the Region.. 131 // c. Final Evaluation on an American Mandate... 134 // 3. THE EFFECTS OF THE REPORT... 144 // a. Preliminary Effects... 144 // b. Disapproval of the Versailles Peace Treaty... 148 // c. Rejection of the Proposal Concerning a Mandate over Armenia ... 149 // d. Influence of Harbord Mission on the Turkish National Struggle ... 156 // CONCLUSION... 161 // BIBLIOGRAPHY... 165 // APPENDICES... 173