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In Italy the people had lived so long under the corrupt rule of Mussolini that, in spite of the tinsel at the top--you have seen the pictures of him--their economic condition had grown steadily worse.
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Roosevelt critiques the long-term economic decline of Italy under Mussolini's corrupt rule.
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