Somalis accepted Italian trusteeship because it was limited to ten years.
Evidence
The Italian Trust Administration (A.F.I.S.) was required to ‘foster the development of free political institutions and to promote the development of the inhabitants of the territory towards independence’. To achieve this end Somalis were to be given increasing responsibility in the political and administrative control of their country under the benevolent tutorship of the Trust Administration. The Agreement, which was approved by the U.N. Assembly on 2 December, 1950, also contained as an annex a declaration of constitutional principles guaranteeing Somali rights and the full implementation of the Trust Administration’s obligations. To make assurance doubly sure from the Somali point of view, a special U.N. Advisory Council was created to sit in Mogadishu to provide direct liaison with the Italian Administration and its wards. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 378 (
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The main spokesman for the S.Y.L. was ‘Abdillahi ‘Ise (later to become the first Premier of Somalia). The League’s President, Haji Mahammad Husseyn, also played a prominent part in the hearings; and the very detailed and impressive S.Y.L. programme for the future development of the country was drafted with the advice of Mr Salole, an Aden Somali lawyer employed in the legal department of the Administration, and of Michael Mariano, a former administrative employee from the north. As on previous occasions, the party stressed its aim of bringing the Somali territories together under a single government, of working steadily towards full independence, and advocated a ten years’ period of trusteeship for Somalia under Four Power administration. On no account would the League countenance a return of Italian rule. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 346 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The 1950 UN trusteeship agreement restricted Italian power over Somalia to ten years. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 378; 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 coalition interests determined Italy’s ten-year return to Somalia. (+2 more)
Related
- Great-power coalition interests determined Italy’s ten-year return to Somalia. (similarity 0.92)
- The 1950 UN trusteeship agreement restricted Italian power over Somalia to ten years. (similarity 0.92)
- The S.Y.L. demanded a ten-year Four Power trusteeship and no Italian return (similarity 0.89)
- Italian-backed Somali groups sought thirty-year Italian trusteeship (similarity 0.87)
- Great-power expediency delivered Somalia back to Italy for ten years (similarity 0.82)
- Italy flew pro-Italian Somalis to petition for its trusteeship (similarity 0.82)
- The SYL demanded UN Four Power trusteeship for ten years, never Italian rule (similarity 0.82)
- Great Power politics overrode Somali majority opinion on the trusteeship question (similarity 0.80)
- Italian trust administration and S.Y.L. reconciled by 1956 (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The 1950 UN trusteeship agreement restricted Italian power over Somalia to ten years.
#corroborates(0.95) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 378 - Great-power expediency delivered Somalia back to Italy for ten years
#corroborates(0.70) - Italian-backed Somali groups sought thirty-year Italian trusteeship
#complicates(0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 347 - The S.Y.L. demanded a ten-year Four Power trusteeship and no Italian return
#complicates(0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 346 - Great-power coalition interests determined Italy’s ten-year return to Somalia.
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