Italian-backed Somali groups sought thirty-year Italian trusteeship

Evidence

The majority of the other Somali groups, organized with Italian financial support into a consortium under the name of the ‘Somalia Conference’, presented a less coherent programme in which they proposed a trusteeship period of thirty years for Somalia, under Italian rule, but subject to the radical reform of the country and its development in all spheres. The H.D.M.S., while previously supporting this view, had now broken with the Conference and favoured Four Power trusteeship for the same lengthy period. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 347

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Somalis accepted Italian trusteeship because it was limited to ten years.; Italy flew pro-Italian Somalis to petition for its trusteeship

Related

• Italy flew pro-Italian Somalis to petition for its trusteeship (similarity 0.88)
• Somalis accepted Italian trusteeship because it was limited to ten years. (similarity 0.87)
• Great-power coalition interests determined Italy’s ten-year return to Somalia. (similarity 0.83)
• The S.Y.L. demanded a ten-year Four Power trusteeship and no Italian return (similarity 0.83)
• The 1950 UN trusteeship agreement restricted Italian power over Somalia to ten years. (similarity 0.81)
• Great-power expediency delivered Somalia back to Italy for ten years (similarity 0.80)
• Pro-Italian Somali parties justified cooperating with the Italian trusteeship administration (similarity 0.80)
• Great Power politics overrode Somali majority opinion on the trusteeship question (similarity 0.79)
• Ethiopia sought trusteeship over Somalia while publicly refusing to aid the SYL (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Italy flew pro-Italian Somalis to petition for its trusteeship #corroborates (0.85)