The Times of Wednesday published some useful notes OR the
political, military, and naval leaders of Italy. Signor Salandra, a man of firm character and great intelligence, is an Apulian. Born in 1853, he studied law and became a Professor at Rome. In 1891 he became Under-Secretary for Finance in the Rudini Cabinet. Two years later he came into political association with Baron Sonnino, and their friendship and mutual confidence have been the marked feature of recent Italian polities. Signor Salandra succeeded Signor Giolitti as Prime Minister in March, 1914. On the death of the Marquis di San Giuliano he insisted that Baron Sonnino should be the new Minister for Foreign Affairs. The latter is the son of an Italian-Jewish father and a Scottish mother. Born in 1847, he also studied as a lawyer, and then became a diplomatist. Later he left diplomacy to study economic questions and take up polities. In 1906, and again in 1910, he became Prime Minister, and Italy owes to his sound finance and downright honesty much of her prosperity.
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