Soukhomlinoff
GENERAL W.
A., a Russian officer, Minister of War at the outbreak of the World War in 1914.
He was at that time believed to be of the modern school of military officials and it was supposed that he was largely responsible for the modern innovations which had been instituted in the Russian military service after the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-5. It soon developed, however, that the Russian Army was in no such state of efficiency as had been supposed, and to this was added evidence of deliberate treachery in the lack of supplies of war munitions at critical times during the operations against the Germans and Austrians. After the Revolution of 1917 General Soukhomlinoff, though retired before that event, was brought to trial for deliberate treason.
This trial was continued after the rise of the Bolsheviki into power, power, in November, 1917, when he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
SOULÉ, PIERRE (sö-lā'), an American statesman; born in Castillon, France, in September, 1802; was educated at the Jesuits' College at Toulouse. In 1817 he went to Bordeaux to complete his education, but took part in the plot against Louis XVIII., was detected and fled to the mountains of the Béarn country. He was pardoned, however, and returned to Paris in 1824, where he became editor of "Le Nain Jaune" ("The Yellow Dwarf"), a paper noted for its extreme liberal ideas. For the publication of a bitter article attacking the ministers of Charles X. he was sentenced to imprisonment, but escaped and arrived in Baltimore, Md., in 1826. Subsequently he went to New Orleans, where he entered politics and was elected to the State Senate in 1847. In 1847 he was appointed to the United SOULT States Senate and elected to a full term in that body in 1849. Later he was sent on a mission to Spain with the object of negotiating for the acquisition of Cuba by the United States; and in 1854 was one of the ministers who framed the famous "Ostend Manifesto." Up to the time of Abraham Lincoln's election he had advocated secession, but thereafter favored co-operation. On the passage by the State of the ordinances of secession, however, he tendered his services to the Confederate government, and in 1862 became an honorary aide on the staff of General Beauregard. At the close of the war he returned to New Orleans and practiced law till his death there, March 26, 1870.