Admission to senior cadre remained as selective as citizenship itself.

Evidence

1929, Carde sent a circular saying that none of that year’s African candidates had passed the requisite exams, and complaining that their preparation had been deplorable. The Africans had had the arrogance to assume that, Carde continued, authorization to apply meant automatic admittance. He pointed out that the new measure was only for those who were truly worthy, by virtue of their education and their morality. Admission to the cadre superieur would remain, in other words, as selective as admission to citizenship. Such limited participation in this and other realms hardly qualified as power sharing, much less an education in public administration. Dakar as much as acknowledged both failures after World War II, when it abandoned the policy of evolue association for the doctrine of political assimilation for all educated Africans. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the recurring pattern seen earlier in the book where assimilation was promised but citizenship remained closed.