The Future of Colonial Policy

Abstract

THE uncertainty of the reaction of the Vichy Government to German plans for obtaining control of French West Africa has already excited alarm, not only in Great Britain and in the United States, but also among the African peoples. It is not merely the strategic issues involved that arouse concern. With the shattering, at any rate for the time being, of Anglo-French co-operation in colonial administration and development, there has come a real threat to the new and liberal ideas of trusteeship embodied in the mandate system. These fears are unlikely to be allayed by the new co-operation between France and the Axis powers, whatever form that co-operation may take.