Word: somalilands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians in London would negotiate as hard as they could to keep Eritrea and Somaliland, might be content there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because...
...first nation to be attacked by the European dictatorships was feeling its oats. In Addis Ababa last week, the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Department demanded sovereignty over the former Italian territory adjoining its frontier. That territory, Italian Somaliland, is now British-occupied- and Britain has its own ideas about the ownership of the strategic Red Sea littoral. The same day, the British Government made a formal presentation to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah: a sleek new Rolls-Royce limousine. Territorial claims could be discussed later...
...proud man, had longed for the absolute authority he once had. In the interim, Britain had guided his affairs of state, protected his frontiers, helped restore his war-torn towns, even put down tribal rebellions. There were also disturbing whispers that Britain was planning to mold a Greater Somaliland out of British and Italian Somaliland, with a slice of Ethiopia included. Haile Selassie wanted less help in managing his own affairs...
...January the Negus himself opened negotiations with London. Last week Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced the outcome in the House of Commons: under a new two-year agreement Britain would voluntarily restrict her rights in Ethiopia. Specifically Britain would: 1) remove her garrisons, except from Ogaden province bordering British Somaliland where the tribesmen were still restless; 2) open Ethiopia's airfields (heretofore restricted to British traffic) to all Allied aircraft; 3) give up operations of the Ethiopian section of the 486-mile Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad, the country's only rail link with the sea. Politically, the Ethiopian...
...Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...