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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.
--
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as quoted Wolfgang Schivelbusch (2006). Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939, Metropolitan Books, p. 31

 

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