FDR and Mussolini

ambassador to Italy, Breckenridge Long, was also full of enthusiasmrnfor the "new experiment in government" whieh "worksrnmost successfullv." Henry Stimson (secretary of state underrnHoover, secretary of war under Roosevelt) recalled that he andrnHoover had foimd Mussolini to be "a sound and useful leader."rnRoosevelt shared many of these positive views . . .