John Talbot wrote. quoting Joyce: "Not to like >it [Italy] because of Mussolini would be just as absurd as to hate England >because of Henry the Eighth"; which is to say that they had a whole other >attitude over there (in Europe) at all; Americans probably wouldn't fathom >such an idea at the time. In fact Mussolini was very popular in the USA. He even had a regular column in the Hearst chain for several yeats--ghost written by his Jewish mistress, Margherita Sarfati. He was als omuch admired by Father Coughlin, the radio priest, who had a very large following, and even thoiugh of running for President, but was ineligible because he was a Canadian. Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War brought an end to Mussolini's poplarity in the USA.