British reversal on the N.F.D. stemmed from Anglo-Ethiopian relations and Kenyan pressure

Evidence

These and other circumstances made it more and more attractive for the British government to pass over the Colonial Secretary’s assurance and to incline towards the position of the Kenyan nationalists. Hence Britain’s line was now to stress that part of her stated policy on Somali unification which held that in the case of the present dispute nothing could be decided without the consent of the government of Kenya. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470 (#expands, via linked claim)

The rupture involved loss of privileges for both countries. The Republic relinquished her small but useful annual subsidy of £1-1/2 million from Britain, while Britain lost over-flying rights and was forced to close down her powerful BBC Middle Eastern service relay transmitter at Berbera. Britain had evidently decided that, whatever interests she might have in maintaining friendship with the Republic, and whatever responsibilities she might be held to owe to her Somali subjects in Kenya, or to her former subjects in the Northern Regions of the Republic, these were not such as to justify endangering the long-standing entente with Ethiopia or alienating the new Commonwealth territory of Kenya. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 480 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

This request was naturally firmly opposed by the K.A.N.U. and K.A.D.U. delegations, who, notwithstanding their lack of unanimity on other issues, were adamant in refusing to concede any right of separate self-determination to the Somali and associated peoples of the N.F.D. Such a concession, they claimed, would jeopardize the territorial integrity of Kenya and would encourage tribal separatist movements throughout the colony. In assuming this position, the K.A.N.U. leaders were fortified by the knowledge that they enjoyed the support of Ethiopia and that African governments in other territories had little sympathy for the Somali case. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 464 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports; Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470; Britain sacrificed Somali ties to preserve its Ethiopian and Kenyan relations — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 480 (+5 more)

Related

• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate (similarity 0.94)
• The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports (similarity 0.91)
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession (similarity 0.90)
• Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession (similarity 0.89)
• The N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession (similarity 0.88)
• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence (similarity 0.87)
• Kenyan parties opposed Somali secession for fear of tribal separatism and with Ethiopian backing (similarity 0.84)
• Britain sacrificed Somali ties to preserve its Ethiopian and Kenyan relations (similarity 0.84)
• The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland (similarity 0.84)
• Britain chose the Ethiopian entente over Somalia’s friendship in 1963 (similarity 0.84)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic (similarity 0.82)
• N.F.D. Somalis comprised 62 percent and nearly unanimously backed secession (similarity 0.82)
• British indecision, not Somali haste, caused the diplomatic breach (similarity 0.82)
• The N.F.D. fixation left Somalia isolated in Pan-African politics (similarity 0.79)
• Britain’s indecision, not Somali haste, caused the Anglo-Somali rupture (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate #expands (0.85) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470
• Britain sacrificed Somali ties to preserve its Ethiopian and Kenyan relations #responds-to (0.80) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 480
• Kenyan parties opposed Somali secession for fear of tribal separatism and with Ethiopian backing #corroborates (0.75) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 464
• Britain chose the Ethiopian entente over Somalia’s friendship in 1963 #exemplifies (0.70)
• Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession #expands (0.60)
• The N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession #expands (0.60)
• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence #qualifies (0.40) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476