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Dependent Areas in the Post-War World

by Arthur N. Holcombe. 112 pgs.

Contributors:

   Arthur N. Holcombe

Publisher:

   World Peace Foundation

Place of Publication:

  Boston  

Publication Year:

  1941

Subjects:

Colonies--Administration, Mandates

	CONTENTS
	PREFACE	3
I.	DEPENDENT AREAS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS	7
	Kinds of Dependent Areas	9
	Present Distribution Among the Powers	12
	Importance of the Dependent Areas	13
	Need for Better Policies	22
II.	THE GOVERNMENT OF DEPENDENCIES	24
	The Policy of Assimilation	24
	Preparation for Independence	26
	Indefinite Postponement of Future Status	28
	Government Under the Democratic Powers	29
	Government Under the Dictatorships	35
III.	THE STRUGGLE FOR DEPENDENCIES AND THE BALANCE OF POWER	40
	Advantages of Possession	41
	Outlets for Surplus Population	43
	Sources of Capitalistic Profits	44
	Bulwarks of National Safety	47
	Factors in Power Politics	52
IV.	AN UNFINISHED EXPERIMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT OF DEPENDENCIES	58
	Nature of the Mandate System	59
	The Mandate System in Operation	63
	The Class "A" Mandates	65
	The Class "B" Mandates	66
	The Class "C" Mandates	69
	Lessons of the Experiment	71
	V. AN AMERICAN VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT OF DEPENDENCIES	76
	Problem of the Philippines	77
	Methods of Improving Relations	78
	Objections to Balance-of-Power Policy for America	80
	Objections to German and Japanese Regionalism	82
	International Government for Dependent Areas	87
	Havana Convention of 1940	91
	APPENDIX A--THE PRINCIPAL DEPENDENCIES IN THE MAIN REGIONS OF THE WORLD	95
	APPENDIX B--BELGIAN MANDATE FOR EAST AFRICA (RUANDA-URUNDI)	99
	APPENDIX C--CONVENTION ON THE PROVISIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF EUROPEAN COLONIES AND POSSESSIONS IN THE AMERICAS	103

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