In December 1950 the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 390-A, legislation that established the guidelines for an eventual federation government between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The resolution itself marked the end of more than four years of intense international deliberation on the future of Eritrea. In the aftermath of the resolution’s passage, Eritrea’s largest and arguably most influential nationalist organization, the Muslim League, began salvaging its pro-independence program by moving away from supporting outright self-determination to charting a new course toward protecting regional autonomy within the planned federal structure. In the period between December 1950 and the inauguration of the Federation government in September 1952, Eritrea’s Muslim League struggled to adjust to the changing realities of nationalist politics.