How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler

Hitler and Mussolini June 1940
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Reports on the rise of fascism in Europe was not the American media's finest hour.

Benito Mussolini secured Italy’s premiership by marching on Rome with 30,000 blackshirts in 1922. By 1925 he had declared himself leader for life. While this hardly reflected American values, Mussolini was a darling of the American press, appearing in at least 150 articles from 1925-1932, most neutral, bemused or positive in tone.