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- 1Sumner Welles quote on Mussolini's backers recirculates●Of Italy, Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State, writes that "especially the reactionary elements and the large
A passage from Sumner Welles, the former US Under Secretary of State, is being shared again. In it he writes that in Italy, especially the reactionary elements and the larger banking and industrial interests welcomed the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. People sharing the quote frame it as a historical lesson about how fascist rule gained support from economic elites, tying it to current American political debate.