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• The French, the Negroes and the Arabs

  "Lecturing at Oxford on Thursday, President Leopold Senghor of Senegal expounded, and indeed exemplified, a view of the African personality unfamiliar to a British audience."
• France Holds on in West Africa

  "Rated as long time conservative, as a European by education as his African by birth, Senghor was beginning to lose the support of the younger Africans."
• Mali Clash Starts New Crisis

  "The break-up was provoked by a squabble over the first presidential election, due on August 27/ Senegal's candidate is M/ Leopold Senghor head of the Senegalese progressive union."
• Guinea

  "Whether Toure is a coherent socialist or a 'Marxist verbaliser' as he was called by Senegal's president Senghor, Gunine depends for aid and advice on East European countries."
• Aspirations of French Africa

  "Mr. Leopold Senghor founded the P.R.A in March by negotiating a merger of 9 of the former eleven African parties."
• French Africa in 2 Camps

  "General de Gaule is seen by African politicians as having accepted the two main requirements of Mr. Leopold Senghor, the leading African spokesman on the constitutional committee in Paris."
• French Two-Step

  "Most probably there were friends such as Senegal's Leopold Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who could protect France in the francophone world."
• French Cause for Alarm

  "Nevertheless two of the most important French African politicians M. Senghor of Senegal and M. Apathy of Dahomey, leaders of the P.R.A (Rally of African Peoples). the most leftward of the two main African parties have made it clear they regard membership of the community only as a stepping stone to independence."
• . . . but 52 were not hanged

  "In an exclusive interview with Jeune Afrique last week, Leopold Senghor, the poet-President of the Senegal, pointed out that if a couple of Portuguese mercenaries could occupy Conakry as the occupiers of November 22 seem to have done, there must have been a certain lack of enthusiasm for battle on the part of the Guineans."
• Gaillard to Hold Africa Conference

  "French officials who are convinced this demagogy, point out none of the major Senegalese political figures such as M. Leopold Senghor, or M Lamine Gueye attended the Congress.
• Blunt Mountbatten wins South American goodwill

  "It came as a reminder of the amazing contrasts of Africa immediately after the previous night's reception in the vast, cool palace of President Senghor on the hill overlooking the famous slave island of Goree."
• U. S. Of Africa' is New Aim

  "Asked whether he would hold meetings with M. Leopold Senghor and other party leaders from French West Africa, the Prime Minister said, "We are already holding regular meetings."
• The Reluctant Beneficiaries

  "As if by British request, the respected Leopold Senghor of Senegal, returning last week from Dakar last week from a French-Speaking African Heads of State conference in Libreville, came out with a statement
• Last Chance" for France in Tunisia

  "The French Socialist Part is already beginning to doubt the validity Cadre Juridique, the legal status of Algeria and M. Senghor the Deputy of Senegal and Secretary of State the Presidency of Council of Ministers."
• The Future of France in Africa

  "That is the crux of the matter of certain leaders such as M.Leopold may prefer a federal system, while accepting the principles of the "Framework Law" may feel that they should be pressed further, but all agree that the common aim will be more readily achieved through associating with a Franco-African community than by isolation themselves in an absolute independence more apparent than real."
• France and her Empire

  "Certain Negro members of the assembly are outstanding as thinkers, writers and speakers. Such a man is M. Senghor of Senegal."
• Scorning the sonnet