Italy flew pro-Italian Somalis to petition for its trusteeship

Evidence

Having studied the views of a considerable cross-section of the population, the Commission9 in due course submitted its findings on Somalia to the Council of Foreign Ministers, reporting, correctly, despite frequent jibes at S.Y.L. delegates during the hearings, that the League’s programme commanded the largest public support in the territory. Nevertheless, notwithstanding the manifest opposition to a return of Italian authority, Britain, like France and America, had now definitely come round to supporting trusteeship under Italy, while Russia, although previously also advocating this, had now decided in favour of Four Power control. … With this failure to reach agreement which involved also the other ex-Italian colonies, the whole turgid issue was passed for settlement to the General Assembly of the United Nations. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 348 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Italians prosecuted Somalis for pro-Ethiopian sentiments during the 1935 war; Italian-backed Somali groups sought thirty-year Italian trusteeship — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 347; Great Power politics overrode Somali majority opinion on the trusteeship question — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 348

Related

• Great Power politics overrode Somali majority opinion on the trusteeship question (similarity 0.91)
• Italian-backed Somali groups sought thirty-year Italian trusteeship (similarity 0.88)
• Ethiopia sought trusteeship over Somalia while publicly refusing to aid the SYL (similarity 0.87)
• Somali elders petitioned both for and against the Bevin plan in 1946 (similarity 0.84)
• Great-power coalition interests determined Italy’s ten-year return to Somalia. (similarity 0.83)
• European refugee politics motivated international pressure for Somali state formation. (similarity 0.82)
• Somalis accepted Italian trusteeship because it was limited to ten years. (similarity 0.82)
• Big-power jockeying over Italy forced a ten-year Italian trusteeship on Somalia. (similarity 0.81)
• Great-power expediency delivered Somalia back to Italy for ten years (similarity 0.80)
• The S.Y.L. demanded a ten-year Four Power trusteeship and no Italian return (similarity 0.80)
• Britain promised Somalis during WWII that Somalia would never return to Italian rule. (similarity 0.80)
• The 1950 UN trusteeship agreement restricted Italian power over Somalia to ten years. (similarity 0.79)
• Postwar Great-Power talks could not agree on Somalia’s future. (similarity 0.79)
• Italy invaded and declared war on Ethiopia on October 3, 1935 (similarity 0.79)
• Italians flew pro-Italian Somali delegates to petition the UN (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Great Power politics overrode Somali majority opinion on the trusteeship question #expands (0.65) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 348