In 1922 the editors of Literary Digest (NYC) approached a number of Italian-language journalists working in North America whether they would care to explain the great success that the Italian Fascists were experiencing in Italy that year. The attached article is a result of their labors.
The article also lists the enormous number of Italian language newspapers that existed in the United States back then; virtually every medium-sized to large American city had one. We were surprised to find that the most pro-Mussolini Italian-American newspaper operating in the U.S. was located in New York City.
In the late Thirties, early Forties the FBI began to monitor the Italian-Americans who adored Mussolini - Click here to read about it
More on Fascist Italy can be read HERE...
Click here to read about the origins of Fascist thought...
