British goodwill cheaply surrendered its Somaliland Protectorate in 1960.

Evidence

This decided, the Protectorate leaders assembled in London on 2 May for the conference which was to sever their colonial connexion. For once British and Somali interests seemed to coincide. The British government was now anxious to relinquish responsibility for what in relation to its size and significance had undoubtedly been one of Britain’s least rewarding possessions. All Britain sought for herself, apart from measures to protect the pension and compensation rights of British personnel, was the continuation of the lease for the BBC Middle Eastern Service relay station at Berbera. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 420

Categorization

• SEED: The minimal material stake Britian asked for — the BBC relay station lease — nicely dramatizes how cheaply empire was given away at the end.
• XREF: connects to: Britain valued the Somaliland Protectorate mainly for Aden’s meat supply; British backing and UN action set July 1960 as Somalia’s independence date; Britain nearly abandoned its Somaliland Protectorate over cost concerns. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 183 (+4 more)

Related

• Britain valued the Somaliland Protectorate mainly for Aden’s meat supply (similarity 0.89)
• Britain relinquished the Protectorate almost unconditionally (similarity 0.85)
• Britain nearly abandoned its Somaliland Protectorate over cost concerns. (similarity 0.85)
• Somalia broke diplomatic ties with Britain on 12 March 1963 (similarity 0.82)
• Britain’s Somaliland involvement was purely a meat-provisioning auxiliary to Aden’s garrison (similarity 0.82)
• Britain in 1897 nearly abandoned its Somaliland protectorate (similarity 0.81)
• Britain sacrificed Somali ties to preserve its Ethiopian and Kenyan relations (similarity 0.81)
• Britain’s Somali interest was solely the meat supply for Aden (similarity 0.81)
• Britain’s Somaliland commitments ballooned far beyond its minimal original aims (similarity 0.80)
• Britain chose the Ethiopian entente over Somalia’s friendship in 1963 (similarity 0.80)
• Britain obtained Ethiopian recognition of the Protectorate while ceding no Somali territory to Ethiopia (similarity 0.80)
• Frontier demarcation with Ethiopia first revealed Britain’s withdrawal of protection (similarity 0.80)
• Britain abandoned Somali unification because its strategic stakes there were too low (similarity 0.80)
• Britain’s nominal treaty stipulation masked its earlier unilateral record in Somaliland. (similarity 0.79)
• Britain promised Somalis during WWII that Somalia would never return to Italian rule. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Somaliland and Somalia united into the Somali Republic in mid-1960. #expands (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 421
• Pan-Somali nationalism forced British Somaliland into sudden premature independence #complicates (0.60)
• Britain in 1897 nearly abandoned its Somaliland protectorate #qualifies (0.55)
• Somaliland’s secession reverted to its pre-union 1960 independence status. #expands (0.50) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 655