Bevin–Sforza Plan
BEVIN–SFORZA PLAN
a post–world war ii plan to administer former italian colonies in north africa.
After World War II, Italy was forced to relinquish its African colonies by the terms of its February 1947 peace treaty with the Allies. Libya was made the temporary responsibility of the United Nations, although Britain and France continued to administer it. Partly to protect their interest and partly to avoid Soviet interference, the British foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, and the Italian foreign minister, Count Carlo Sforza, promulgated a joint plan on 10 May 1949, for the United Nations to grant trusteeships to Britain in Cyrenaica; Italy in Tripolitania; and France in the Fezzan, for a ten-year period, after which Libya would become independent. The plan, which met massive hostility in Libya itself, was rejected by the United Nations General Assembly eight days later.
see also bevin, ernest.
Bibliography
Wright, John. Libya: A Modern History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
George Joffe