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“I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.”
Comment on Benito Mussolini in 1933, as quoted in Three New Deals : Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 (2006) by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, p. 31
1930s
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