The King-Crane Commission Report, August 28, 1919

I. THE REPORT UPON SYRIA

CLASSIFIED LIST OF DELEGATIONS RECEIVED

The tables showing the classes and number of delegations met by the Commission, should make clear how varied the population is, and also that no vital interest or element of the population has been omitted in the inquiry. At the same time it should be carefully borne in mind that the number of delegations is no proper index of the proportions of the population. The Christian population is divided into so many small groups that it is represented in the tables by a larger number of delegations than the Moslem majority.

O. E. T. A

		South	East	West	Total
	I-Political Groups:
1.	Mayors and Municipal Councils	12	9	13	34
2.	Administrative Councils	2	7	6	15
3.	Councils of Village Chiefs	22	20	23	65
4.	Arab Sheikhs	6	22	2	30
5.	Arab Societies	2	1	2	5
6.	Moslem Christian Committees	3	1	0	4
	Total Political Groups	47	60	46	153
	II-Economic and Social Groups:
1.	Professions and Trades	1	6	10	17
2.	Farmers, etc.	1	4	1	6
3.	Young Men's Clubs	1	5	1	7
4.	Chambers of Commerce	I	O	0	1
5.	Miscellaneous Groups	1	1	8	10
	Total Economic and Social Groups	5	16	20	41
	III-Religious Groups:
A	-Christians-
1.	General Christian Groups (Composite)	7	3	3	13
2.	General Catholic Groups	0	0	5	5
*3.	Christian Ladies	0	3	2	5
4.	Protestants	9	5	7	22
5.	Latins	9	2	4	15
6.	Greek Orthodox	7	6	12	25
7.	Greek Catholic	8	5	6	19
8.	Maronites	7	2	7	16
9.	Armenians (general groups)	1	0	3	4
10.	Armenian Catholics	0	1	0	1
11.	Armenian Orthodox	0	2	0	2
12.	Syrian Catholics	1	2	1	4
13.	Syrian Orthodox	0	3	0	3
14.	Chaldean Catholics	1	1	0	2
15.	Copts	1	0	0	1
16.	Abyssinans	2	0	0	2
		53	36	50	139
B	-Moslems
1.	Muftis and Ulema	7	7	10	24
2.	Moslem Notables	2	10	3	15
3.	Moslems (Sunnites)	9	2	10	21
4	Shiites	0	0	2	2
5.	Moslem Ladies	0	2	1	3
6.	Turkish Moslems	0	0	4	4
7.	Ismailites	0	0	2	2
8.	Dervishes	0	1	0	1
9.	Circassians	0	2	0	2
		18	24	32	74
C	-Other Religious Groups
1.	Jews	14	2	5	21
2.	Druses	1	1	5	7
3.	Samaritans	1	0	0	1
4.	Persians	1	0	0	1
5.	Nusairiyeh	0	0	5	5
		17	10	3	35
	Total Religious Groups	88	63	97	248
	Grand Totals	140	139	163	442

*The simple statement that the women of the East left their historic seclusion to appear before a Commission of American men is a revelation of the new role women are playing in the nationalistic movements in the Orient.