ABSTRACT
The King-Crane proposal, if implemented, would have condemned the Jewish community in Palestine to a status of a permanent minority in Greater Syria, which was an antithesis of Zionism. It ran counter to the recommendations made by the American delegation to the Peace Conference and was a blatant disregard of President Wilson, who had advisedly and publicly used the term "Jewish Commonwealth. Delighted, Weizmann and Frankfurter responded instantly, learn, with deep gratitude, of continued efforts towards friendliest relations between Arabs and Jews. The Weizmann-Frankfurter joint cable had hardly reached its destination when Lt. Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis, Deputy Chief Political Officer in Damascus, reported: Feisal is beginning to realise the difficulties which he will have in reconciling Palestinians and Zionists, and no longer treats the question as a minor one. In January, the Weizmann-Feisal Agreement was welcome, but from spring 1919, it no longer suited British interests as the Military saw it.
