>I could not help being charmed, like so many other people have been, by
>Signor Mussolini's gentle and simple bearing and by his calm, detached
>poise in spite of so many burdens and dangers. Secondly, anyone could see
>that he thought of nothing but the lasting good, as he understood it, of
>the Italian people, and that no lesser interest was of the slightest
>consequence to him. If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have
>been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant
>struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. I will,
>however, say a word on an international aspect of fascism. Externally, your
>movement has rendered service to the whole world. The great fear which has
>always beset every democratic leader or a working class leader has been
>that of being undermined by someone more extreme than he. Italy has shown
>that there is a way of fighting the subversive forces which can rally the
>masses of the people, properly led, to value and wish to defend the honour
>and stability of civilised society. She has provided the necessary antidote
>to the Russian poison. Hereafter no great nation will be unprovided with an
>ultimate means of protection against the cancerous growth of Bolshevism.
>
> -- speech delivered in Rome, 20 January 1927
>
>The Story of that Struggle cannot be read without admiration for the
>courage, the perseverance, the vital force which enabled him to challenge,
>defy, conciliate, or overcome, all authorities or resistance which barred
>his path. I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war, I
>hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position
>among the nations.
>
> -- 1939 edition of 'Great Contemporaries'
...and don't forget...
>"I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes."
Doug