yeah that was before the 40's, besides
“I have an unbounded faith in the future greatness of the Italian people. Ours is, among the European peoples, the largest and most homogeneous. … Unlike the pessimists who believe that everything is great in other people’s houses, while everything is too small in their own, we have pride in our race and our history.”
-Speech in Trieste, February 6, 1921
“How then was this Fascismo born… it was born of the profound and perennial need of this our Mediterranean and Aryan race…”
-Speech in Bologna, April 3, 1921
“…we feel those bonds of race to be alive and vital which bind us, not only to the Italians of Zara, Ragusa and Cattaro, but also to those of the Canton Ticino and Corsica, to those beyond the oceans, to all that great family of fifty million men whom we wish to unite in the same pride of race.”
-Speech in Bologna, April 3, 1921
“Italy is not a State, she is a nation, because from the Alps to Sicily there is the fundamental unity of our race, our customs, our language and our religion.”
-Speech in Milan, October 4, 1922
“It must not be forgotten that, besides the minority that represent actual militant politics, there are forty millions of excellent Italians who work, by their splendid birth-rate perpetuate our race…”
-Speech Delivered in the Chamber, November 16, 1922
“We, here and everywhere, are ready for any battle so that we may uphold the foundations of our race and of our history.”
-Speech in London, December 12, 1922
“Let me first of all say how happy I am that we should have met in these magnificent rooms which furnish evidence of the strength and beauty of our race.”
-Speech in Rome, January 2, 1923