AMENDOLA, GIOVANNI (1882-1926), Italian politician and journalist, was born at Naples, April 15 1882. He entered journalism at the age of 18, and eventually became Rome corre spondent of the Milan Corriere della Sera,-which he left in 1921 to found a paper of his own, 11 Mondo. In 1919 he was elected deputy for Sarno in the province of Salerno and re-elected in 1921 and 1924. After the World War he devoted himself entirely to politics as a Democratic Liberal and a supporter of Nitti. On Nitti's fall, June 9 1920, he joined the opposition to Giolitti, and became minister for the colonies, first under Bonomi, then under Facta. He opposed Fascism from the first, and after Mussolini's advent to power he became in some sense the leader of the hetero geneous opposition groups. After the Matteotti crime he was the leader of those who withdrew from the Chamber to the Aventine (see ITALY) . His devotion to constitutional principles led him during the election campaign of 1924 to declare the electoral law enacted by the Fascist Government to be unconstitutional and therefore null and void. His two publications Una Battaglia liberale (1924) and La Democrazia dopo it i6 Aprile 1924 made known his political faith. His death in hospital at Cannes, April 6 1926, was thought to be the result of the two attacks on his life on Dec. 26 1923, in Rome, and in Aug. 1925, while on holiday at Montecatini.