Colonial administrators experienced metropolitan democratic oversight as a threat to domination.

Evidence

The same was true of French rule. The governors general appointed by the government in Paris were either subject to powerful pressure from French colonials as in Algeria, or simply refused to carry out reforms in the treatment of natives, which were allegedly inspired by “the weak democratic principles of (their) government.” Everywhere imperialist administrators felt that the control of the nation was an unbearable burden and threat to domination. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 364

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of the national-factor versus imperial-factor conflict, useful as factual grounding for the toolkit concept that rule over subject peoples conflicts with democratic principles.