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We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

John T. Flynn

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John T. Flynn
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: October 25
Died: 1964
Died: April 13
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