As late as 1933, the year in which Hitler’s Italian-inspired Nazis came to power, #Churchill described Mussolini in a speech that February at the Queen’s Hall in London as ‘the Roman genius’ and ‘the greatest law-giver among living men’. He added: ‘With the fascist regime, Mussolini has established a centre of orientation from which countries which are engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with #socialism must not hesitate to be guided.

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