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	Somalia - British Military Administration
		The British disbanded the Italian security units in the south and raised a new army, the Somalia Gendarmerie, commanded by British officers, to police the occupied territory.
		Additionally, military administrators opened the political process for Somalis, replacing Italian-appointed chiefs with clan-elected bodies, as well as district and regional councils whose purpose was to advise the military administration.
		The situation prompted British colonial officials to encourage the Somalis to organize politically; the result was the first modern Somali political party, the Somali Youth Club (SYC), established in Mogadishu in 1943.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-11956.html (1624 words)

	Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The convention provided for British assistance in the organization of a new Ethiopian army that was to be trained by a British military mission.
		British assistance strengthened the emperor's efforts to substitute, as his representatives in the provinces, experienced administrators for the traditional nobility.
		The 1942 Anglo-Ethiopian agreement enabled the British military to disarm the Somali rebels and to patrol the region.
	www.louisville.edu /~f0kass02/History/page2.html (1554 words)

	1937/38 - Postage Dues
		Overprinted with 'B.M.A. Eritrea - 5 cents' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948.
		Overprinted with 'B.M.A. Eritrea - 10 cents' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948.
		Overprinted with 'B.M.A. Eritrea - 1 shilling' (British Military Administration in Eritrea), from 1948.
	www.kg6gb.org /1937_38_-_postage_dues.htm (415 words)

	An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine to the League of Nations, June 1921 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The administration of the country, entrusted to the High Commissioner, is conducted through a staff, the heads of which, both in the central Departments and in the Districts, are British.
		The Administration has adopted a scheme under which the people of any town or village where a school is needed, are invited to provide a suitable building and to keep it in repair; the Government defrays, out of general taxation, the salaries of the teachers and the other costs of maintenance.
		British and Palestinian, at headquarters and in the districts, in the administrative departments, in the judiciary, in the technical services, in the police--the officials of the Government have displayed a high degree of loyalty and zeal.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/herbert.html (8549 words)

	Ethiopia 1935-55, Part 5
		Tension was further increased by the action of the British military authorities in appropriating, and taking out of the country, several valuable factory installations set up by the Italians, as well as not a few enemy weapons and military and other transport vehicles.
		British policy towards Ethiopia was framed at this time by the Chief British Political Officer in the Middle East, Sir Philip Mitchell, a colonial-minded officer, and former Governor of Uganda, who attempted to impose a considerable measure of control over Ethiopia.
		The British military was likewise given the right, in Article 9(a), to occupy all property formerly belonging to the Italian state, and in Article 9(d) to confiscate any privately-owned vehicles they might require.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2004/05/14-05-04/Ethiopia.htm (1891 words)

	International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
		What makes the bloodletting different this time is that it has been attributed to narcotics traffickers and their allies.
		European Aeronautic Defense & Space confirmed Friday that it was close to signing two weapons contracts with the government of Libya, the first arms deal with the North African country since the European Union lifted military sanctions nearly three years ago.
		One of Pakistan's main opposition leaders, Javed Hashmi, serving a life sentence for treason and inciting a military mutiny, was released, heartening foes of President Pervez Musharraf.
	www.iht.com (1008 words)

	Mudulood PageA
		Additionally, military administrators opened the political process for Somalis, replacing Italian-appointed chiefs with clan-elected bodies, as well as district and regional councils whose purpose was to advise the military administration.
		The British colonial administrators of the area were, however, embarrassed by what they saw as Britain's betrayal of the trust put in it by Somali clans who were to be protected against Ethiopian raids.
		The British government acquiesced to the force of Somali nationalist public opinion and agreed to terminate its rule of Somaliland in 1960 in time for the protectorate to merge with the trust territory on the independence date already fixed by the UN commission.
	www.mudulood.com /PageCigaal.html (3371 words)

	Chapter VII: Planning Joint Military Government Proves Highly Political
		British military administration, once occupation is established, is set up by proclamation in the usual manner, the practice being to make effective the proclamations of the Commanding General by posting them in principal places (Court House or Mayor's office) in each municipality as it is occupied....
		Administrative personnel to operate the center was secured and arrived in Algiers at the end of the first week in May. Approval was obtained at the time to establish the center at Chrea, near Blida, where this personnel and other administrative personnel called forward to arrive about 15 May assembled during May.
		British Government concerning the Military Government of Operation HUSKY since your Fortune 101 of 14 April in which it was stated that a reply was being made by the State Department to the proposal left by Mister Eden.
	www.army.mil /cmh/books/wwii/civaff/ch07.htm (17965 words)

	British Efforts Against the Nascent Israeli State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This was the culmination of a policy developed and pursued by the British throughout their administration of the Mandate -- surely not the least of the great betrayals of the weak by the strong in the twentieth century.
		That is the background of the sudden appearance in 1919 of a militant Arab "movement." In the circumstances of the time, the British military administration should have invited and ensured the co-operation of the local population, Moslem and Christian, in implementing London's policy.
		A critical detailed analysis, legal and administrative, of the British measures during the first phase of the 1936 revolt is given in Horace B. Samuel, Revolt by Leave (London, 1937).
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~samuel/britainarab.html (5100 words)

	Consequences...
		Many Eritreans, who, under the British administration, had learned respect for parliamentary democracy, pluralist elections, the rule of law, and the protection of human rights, were disappointed in their fate in being forced into an authoritarian monarchy.
		The British military probably kept the "Little Emperor" on his throne in 1943, but the Tigrean Woyane, already contemptuous of upstart Amhara rule, were filled with a new sense of hatred when British officers and air strikes paved the way for draconian punishment of peasants and nobles by Haile Selassie's forces.
		Margaret Perham criticizes Mosley's depiction of British colonial ambitions in Ethiopia as "somewhat sinister" and "somewhat inadequately documented." She infers that such intrigue could not be taken as a common British aspiration of the era.
	fp.okstate.edu /vestal/BookReview/consequences___.htm (4773 words)

	Ethiopia: Growth of Secessionist Threats ~a HREF="/et_00_00.html#et_01_06"
		In keeping with a 1950 decision of the UN General Assembly, British military administration ended in September 1952 and was replaced by a new autonomous Eritrean government in federal union with Ethiopia.
		After the British evacuated the Ogaden in 1948, Ethiopian officers took over administration in the city of Jijiga, at one point suppressing a demonstration led by the SYL, which the government subsequently outlawed.
		After it was disbanded in the rest of Ethiopia, the British military administration continued to supervise the area from Harer eastward and did not withdraw from the Haud until 1955.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/etsave/et_01_06.html (1691 words)

	Our Jerusalem.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While their government was still canvassing international support to grant Britain the Mandate in order to implement the Zionist policy, and while the Zionists were urging Britain’s claims, the first British administration in Palestine was busily engaged in open defiance of its government’s declared policy.
		That is the background of the sudden appearance In 1919 of a militant Arab "movement." In the circumstances of the time, the British military administration should have invited and ensured the cooperation of the local population, Moslem and Christian, in implementing London’s policy.
		The military administration itself began creating an Arab organization that could then be presented as the authentic voice and representative of "the Arabs" in rejecting and combating the Zionists and the Zionist policy of the British government.
	www.ourjerusalem.com /series/story/battleground026.html (761 words)

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		A British military administration was set up in Eritrea which was to last until 1952.
		Britain's immediate interest was the consolidation of their military gains and support for their war efforts in Europe and North Africa.
		Amharic, the emperor's language, was substituted in the administration and in the schools.
	www.dehai.org /abouteritrea/eritrean_history.html (2057 words)

	The Jewish Legion
		Military formation of Jewish volunteers in World War I, who fought in the British Army for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule.
		The British military command opposed the participation of Jewish volunteers on the Palestinian front and suggested the volunteers serve as a detachment for mule transport on some other sector of the Turkish front.
		The Jewish Legion was demobilized by the anti-Zionist British Military Administration (1918 -1920).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/legion.html (259 words)

	Singapore - Aftermath of War
		Although Singaporeans were relieved and happy at the arrival of the Commonwealth troops, their first-hand witnessing of the defeat of the British by an Asian power had changed forever the perspective from which they viewed their colonial overlords.
		The military administration was far from a panacea for all Singapore's ills.
		As a result of the inefficiency and mismanagement of the rice distribution, the BMA was cynically known as the "Black Market Administration." However, by April 1946, when military rule was ended, the BMA had managed to restore gas, water, and electric services to above their prewar capacity.
	countrystudies.us /singapore/9.htm (2288 words)

	Ethiopia: Italian Rule and World War II ~a HREF="/et_00_00.html#et_01_04"
		A succession of Italian chief administrators, or governors, maintained a degree of unity and public order in a region marked by cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity.
		The new administration stressed the racial and political superiority of Italians, authorized segregation, and relegated the local people to the lowest level of public employment.
		The convention provided for British assistance in the organization of a new Ethiopian army that was to be trained by a British military mission (see Military Tradition in National Life, ch.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/etsave/et_01_04.html (1886 words)

	Amazon.ca: British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa: During the Years of 1941-1947: Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amazon.ca: British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa: During the Years of 1941-1947: Books: Rennell,Francis James Rennell R Rennell of Rodd
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		British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa: During the Years of 1941-1947 (Hardcover)
	www.amazon.ca /British-Military-Administration-Occupied-Territories/dp/0837143195 (196 words)

	Interim Report of the Civil Administration of Palestine, 1921 - Lord Samuel
		-- A Department was formed in the last months of the Military Administration for the assistance of agriculture, which is, and must long remain, the principal industry of Palestine.
		British and Palestinian, at headquarters and in the districts, in the administrative departments, in the judiciary, in the technical services, in the police -- the officials of the Government have displayed a high degree of loyalty and zeal.
		But during a time of activity and change, under conditions often of difficulty and sometimes of strain, the staff as a whole have shown a sense of duty, an industry and a loyalty that redound both to their own credit and to the country's advantage.
	www.gwpda.org /1918p/samuel1921.html (8262 words)

	IMIA - 1947 DODECANESE CONVENTION
		I have the honour to inform your Excellency that His Majesty 's Government in the United Kingdom have agreed to a tranfer of responsibility for the administration of the Dodecanese Islands from the existing British Administration to a Greek Military Administration with effect from twelve noon today.
		On this occasion I would ask your Excellency to be good enough to convey to His Majesty' s Government and their sincere appreciation of the way in which the British Military Administration has been carried on since the liberation of the Islands.
		His Majesty' s Government in the United Kingdom agree to waive all claim to military material, captured from the Italian and German forces formerly in occupation of the Dodecanese, still remaining in the Islands on 1st April, 1947.
	www.hellas.org /news/archives/1947.htm (435 words)

	Palmer Family British Military Careers
		The Caribbean was once an important area of colonial activity for the British with rich sugar islands, but it was a disliked assignment due to the prevalence of illness among the troops sent to the islands.
		Slavery is abolished in the British colonies and the slaves are emancipated.
		While his father's military career was relatively mediocre, Henry Wellington achieved the highest rank in the military among the Palmers and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (hence the C. after his name).
	mcguinnessfamily.org /palmer-military.htm (7794 words)

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