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as a separate political entity.

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

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representing the British Empire, President Woodrow Wilson and Robert Lansing of the United States, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau and French Foreign Affairs Minister

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, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and

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for Italy, and Matsui Keishirō for Japan. The Syrian delegation members were Chekri Ganem, the Central Syrian Committee's top representative, Anis Schehade, Jamil Mardam Bey,

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At the Versailles Peace Conference

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