FIVE TIMES PREMIER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 409, 18 July 1928, Page 9

FIVE TIMES PREMIER

ITALIAN STATESMAN DEAD GIOVANNI GIOLITTI’S CAREER (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (United Service J ROAiE, Tuesday. The death has occurred of Signor Giovanni Gioiiiti, formerly Prime Minister of Italy, in his 85 th year. Giovanni Giolitti was born at Mondovi and educated at the University _ lin\I in \ . An advocate by profession, he -urnea his attention to politics, was a member of the Chamber of De Kaa S ’ became Alinister of Finance in He was president or Prime Alin- \ s l e J for . I lhe fourth time from Alarch, fy ll * until 1914, when he resigned, and ...is succeeded by Salandra. After the outbreak of the Great War he tried to Keep Italy neutral, on the ground that she \°uia obtain sufficient concessions from * St l la regard to the frontier without lighting. He became Prime Alinister ;lffa,n in June, 1920. The Fascist Government took the reins in 1922. Giolitti ~N ter turned against Mussolini, but he tnanged again and appeared ready to support the dictator. That practically ended his political career. In November, 1926, at the famous sitting of the tnamber of Deputies which voted the expulsion of 127 members of the Aventine poun of Deputies, Giolitti, Salandra and a few Liberals and independent Catholics, the sole survivors of the OpposiP 0I )t an <3 they abstained from caring attention to their presence in any way of who was regarded as one n e three strongest personalities in Italian politics in the last e-eneration was i°st sight of But in February. 1927. it was reported that he had written to the King of Italy, uredner him to abdicate. if ne could not uphold his position atrainst -Mussolini, and that this letter was his Political