The document discusses Winston Churchill's views and stances regarding various fascist leaders and regimes in the 1930s-1940s. It notes that Churchill initially praised Mussolini after he took power in Italy in 1923. It also discusses Churchill urging that Japan be given a free hand in Manchuria in 1931 and describing Franco's forces in Spain as "anti-red." While Churchill was suspicious of Germany after WWI, he expressed that he would choose Nazism over Communism and opposed Hitler more due to German rearmament than cruelty.