Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Richard Crane (1858-1939) was a wealthy American philanthropist, businessman and Arabist, who had business knowledge of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He was the eldest son of Chicago manufacturing mogul Richard T. Crane. In the 1900s, he brought Thomas Masaryk, Maksim Kovalevsky, and Pavel Milyukov to lecture at the University of Chicago. After meeting Masaryk, he became interested in Slavic nationalism and sponsored The Slav Epic paintings by Alphonse Mucha The younger Crane's heavy contributions to President Woodrow Wilson's 1912 election campaign led to his service: in the 1917 Special Diplomatic Commission (or Root Commission) to Russia, as a member of the American Section of the Paris Peace Conference, and in the 1919 Inter-Allied Commission on Mandates in Turkey that now bears his name (King-Crane Commission).

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