Bevin justified Somali unification by citing artificial frontiers cutting grazing grounds

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In the interest of the people themselves a single administration should be established for the Somali people of British Somaliland, Italian Somaliland, Ogaden and the Reserved Area. In this way the Somali people as a whole would best be enabled to advance towards self-government in accordance with the principles of the trusteeship system. Furthermore artificial internal frontiers, which cut across grazing grounds and hamper economic development of the territory as a whole, would be eliminated. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 233