[I]f the League of Nations must be a solemn ‘swindle’ of the rich against the proletarian nations to fix forever the actual conditions of the world equilibrium, let’s look each other well in the eyes. I understand perfectly that arrived nations can establish these awards which ensure their opulence and their actual dominant position. But this is not idealism: this is profit and interest.
Benito Mussolini as quoted in Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy, Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi University of California Press (1997) p. 163