Prince Faisal sought to build a Syrian army capable of establishing security and stability and preserving the state entity to be declared. And asked the British to arm this army but they refused, In late 1918, Prince Faisal was invited to participate in the peace conference that was held after the World War in Versailles, where he visited France and Britain who assured him of their good intentions towards Syria while they were behind his back sharing the rest of it and amending the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Faisal proposed at the conference to establishing three Arab governments in Hijaz, Syria and Iraq, but the Americans proposed the Mandate system, and sending a referendum committee to know political wishes of people, is known as the King–Crane Commission and the French and the English reluctantly agreed.