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Show THE STRONG MAN OF ITALY. Giovanni Giolitti the Dominant Power . in the Cabinet. . Cable dispatches from Rome always contain the name of Giovanni Qiollttl if they have anything to do with poli- tics. Private political discussions' In Italy are likewise bound sooner or later to turn upon the doings of the powerful democrat, who, although nominally only the Minister of the Interior, In-terior, is the real soul and spirit of the present Italian cabinet. He is a tall, ugly man, with a long nose, who Impresses his personality on whoever he comes in contact with a man who plainly shows his middle-class birth, but, true democrat in feeling, he holds his own with princes and kings without with-out the least embarrassment. |