... after 1926 when Contarini resigned the foreign policy lay in Mussolini's hands to be developed as he wished and later delegated to other fascists. "It was quite clear that through out the regime it was Mussolini who conducted the foreign policy of fascist Italy whether he was nominally in charge or not."2 Another argument is that actually "fascist foreign policy could be seen as conventional or the extension of a certain tradition."3 In many areas he maintained the same policies as the previous ministers and indeed many of the ministers were from the previous regimes and it was only when his son-in-law was appointed to the foreign office that it was said that the ministry became fully fascist. The policy he adopted was one that many conservative liberals and nationalists subscribed to which is why it was so popular at the time. Later it became more extreme which is where ...

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