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"Show respect to all people, but grovel to none"
1942 Britain and Ethiopia concluded an agreement whereby Britain retained extensive control over Ethiopia's administration, finance and territorial integrity. It directly administered the Ogaden and also the cereal-producing areas in the northwest around Jijiga and up to the Djibouti railway, which were considered a`Reserved Area'. The second Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement of 1944 restored some of Ethiopia's sovereign rights, but Britain did not withdraw from the east. In April1946 Britain proposed to the victorious allies that the United Nations should recognize a `Greater Somalia', and place it under its trusteeship, arguing that this would be in the best interests of the Somali pastoralists who could then move freely between their grazing lands. The Soviet representative at the UN, however,objected that this was a British trick to expand their empire; Ethiopia, of course,also lobbied strongly against the idea, although Britain was ready to offer the port of Zeila in return. The Somali Youth League based in Mogadishu and the Somali National League in British Somaliland, however, were very much in favour (Bahru,191:181-2 ; Drysdale,
