Central Syrian Committee
{{Short description|Syrian nationalist organisation}}
The Central Syrian Committee ({{Langx|fr|Comité Central Syrien}}) was an organization active during after World War I, seeking the independence and the unity of Syria. It lobbied for an autonomous and indivisible Syria extending from the Taurus mountains to the Isthmus of Suez, and from the Mediterranean to the banks of the Euphrates and beyond. The movement did not consider Palestine as a separate political entity.{{sfn|W.|1923|p=453}}{{sfn| Comité Central Syrien |1919}}
== At the Versailles Peace Conference==
The Syrian Delegation met with the Supreme Council of the Versailles Peace Conference on February 13, 1919. The council consisted of Arthur James Balfour and Viscount Milner representing the British Empire, President Woodrow Wilson and Robert Lansing of the United States, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau and French Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Pichon, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Sydney Sonnino for Italy, and Matsui Keishirō for Japan.{{efn|Additionally present were Mr. A. J. Toynbee and Major the Honorable W. Ormsby Gore. }}{{Sfn|Center for Online Judaic Studies|2008}} The Syrian delegation members were Chekri Ganem, the Central Syrian Committee's top representative, Anis Schehade, Jamil Mardam Bey, Georges Samné, Nejil Bey Maikarze, and Tewfik Farhi.{{Sfn|Center for Online Judaic Studies|2008}}
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- {{Cite web |last=Center for Online Judaic Studies |date=2008 |title=Statement of the Syrian Delegation to the Peace Conference, Feb. 13, 1919. |url=http://cojs.org/statement_of_the_syrian_delegation_to_the_peace_conference-_feb-_13-_1919/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707092449/http://cojs.org/statement_of_the_syrian_delegation_to_the_peace_conference-_feb-_13-_1919/ |archive-date=7 July 2022 |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=Center for Online Judaic Studies |language=en-US}}
- {{Cite journal |last=W. |first=W. H. A. |date=1923 |title=Review of The Cambridge History of India |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1780828 |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=453–455 |doi=10.2307/1780828 |jstor=1780828 |issn=0016-7398}}
- {{Cite book |last=Comité Central Syrien |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9399754 |title=La Syrie devant la conférence. Mémoire à Monsieur Georges Clémenceau et à MM. les délégués des puissances alliées et associées à cette conférence, documents et cartes |date=1919 |publisher=Imprimerie des arts et manufactures - M. Barnagaud |location=Paris |language=fr}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Simon |first=James J. |date=1996 |title=The role of the administrative council of Mount Lebanon in the creation of Greater Lebanon: 1918–1920 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45197729 |journal=Journal of Third World Studies |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=119–171 |jstor=45197729 |issn=8755-3449}}
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