ABSTRACT
Most present-day colonies are native dependencies. The West Indies, Mauritius, the Central African Tableland, and a few others are “composite colonies” in which a smallish white aristocracy and a scarcely more numerous white middle class control native populations. In social structure, certain North African regions, especially Algeria and Tunis, strongly resemble them. 1 Tunis and Morocco rank as native vassal states, whilst Algeria, at least in its three settled departments, is somewhat artificially incorporated in France; it can scarcely be termed a “colony” any longer. India occupies the same status as Australia in the League of Nations. She is enjoying fiscal autonomy—like a dominion—but she is held by an army of occupation; she may be an associate, but she is not yet really autonomous. She might be considered a colony from a political point of view; economically she is nearly independent.
