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Handwritten letter from Felix Pacheco to Benito Mussolini (1920s or 1930s)

Handwritten letter from Felix Pacheco to Benito Mussolini (1920s or 1930s)

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In Rome, renowned Brazilian diplomat Felix Pacheco expresses his fascination with the founder of Italian fascism, Benito Mussolini.

  • Handwritten letter from Brazilian diplomat Felix Pacheco to dictator Benito Mussolini.
  • Three pages on Grand Hotel De Russie stationery, in Rome.
  • In Portuguese.
  • 14.5 cm x 19 cm.
  • Rome, Italy, in the 1920s or 1930s.
  • Excellent condition.
  • Unique piece.

To His Excellency Mr. President Benito Mussolini.

I do not wish to leave Rome without reiterating to Your Excellency my profound admiration for your admirable work in government. I have traveled through Italy from north to south and have observed everywhere a fever of renovating action that honors the capacity to reconstruct, which has always been the prerogative of the Latin spirit, and greatly ennobles the regime that has integrated under new molds this great land of order, beauty, culture, strength, and dream.

Fascism as a doctrine is much debated abroad, but what no one can dispute in bad faith is the brilliant conjunto of victories that the party created by Your Excellency's vigorous genius has achieved in the realm of effective realizations. Italy now looms triply cohesive and united, under the scepter of the House of Savoy, in reconciliation with the Church, and in the general enthusiasm observed for the Head of Government's orientation.

The portrait Your Excellency kindly offered me has its marked place on my desk next to the [of His Highness – crossed out] photograph of the Crown Prince, from whom I had the honor of receiving in the State of Bahia, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of my parents, when His Highness passed through Brazil.

I renew to Your Excellency the expression of my best thanks.

Felix Pacheco
Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy
Director of Jornal do Commercio of Rio de Janeiro, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rio de Janeiro

Felix Pacheco (1879 - 1935) was a respected journalist and writer and one of the owners of Jornal do Commercio, one of the oldest Brazilian newspapers still in circulation. Elected several times as a federal deputy and senator, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Artur Bernardes government (1922-1926), which led him to a diplomatic career in Italy.

Benito Mussolini (1880 - 1945) became Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and is known as one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.

During the 1920s and 1930s, several members of the Brazilian federal government and diplomats serving in Italy harbored sympathies for fascism. Such proximity was expressed through the exchange of decorations and favors or, more significantly, through Brazilian support for various decisions of the Italian government: for example, the Abyssinian War or the repression of Italian anti-fascists.

In the wake of the 1929 crisis, Getúlio Vargas came to power in Brazil, with Nazi Germany and the United States as its main trading partners. Strategic for the supply of raw materials and with both countries preparing for war, Brazil accelerated its trade with Adolf Hitler's Germany, but reversed course when the Vargas government decided to decisively align Brazil with the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Felix Pacheco was openly Italophile and close to fascism, as demonstrated by this letter, which he later regretted. It is unknown whether Mussolini actually received and read these lines, but it remains an interesting — and sad — testament to Brazil's diplomatic and ideological hesitations on the eve of World War II.

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