The rupture involved loss of privileges for both countries. The Republic relinquished her small but useful annual subsidy of £1-1/2 million from Britain, while Britain lost over-flying rights and was forced to close down her powerful BBC Middle Eastern service relay transmitter at Berbera. Britain had evidently decided that, whatever interests she might have in maintaining friendship with the Republic, and whatever responsibilities she might be held to owe to her Somali subjects in Kenya, or to her former subjects in the Northern Regions of the Republic, these were not such as to justify endangering the long-standing entente with Ethiopia or alienating the new Commonwealth territory of Kenya.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 480