Foreign News: Lion of Senegal

Lion Noir is the name of a popular French brand of black shoe polish. Black Lion is also the self-given nickname of the second tallest, darkest-skinned member of the French Chamber of Deputies—Negro Galandou Diouf, 64, Deputy for Senegal, one of the four colored and one of the most colorful men in the French Government.

The Black Lion has been a teacher, soldier, politician and peanut-farmer. He hates Communists. In a recent debate on the fate of the Communist Deputies, he roared: "What France really needs is toimport a few more good anthropophagites like me and we would eat...

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