the white women among men who go down to the sea in ships must have reactions in the East and in every part of the world where colored and white races dwell side by side". The British historian Raphael Samuel noted that this story was typical of the "ever racist" Rothermere newspapers, which usually presented a demonic Other, in this case Chinese immigrants, which posed an existential threat to a noble, but failing Britain. In October 1922, the Daily Mail approved of the Fascist "March on Rome" as the newspaper argued that democracy had failed in Italy, thus requiring Benito Mussolini to set up his Fascist dictatorship to save the social order. In May 1923, Rothermere published a leader in The Daily Mail entitled "What Europe Owes Mussolini", where he wrote about his "profound admiration" for Mussolini, whom he praised for "in saving Italy he stopped the inroads of Bolshevism which would had left Europe in ruins...in my judgment he saved the entire Western world. It was because Mussolini overthrew Bolshevism in Italy that it collapsed in Hungary and ceased to gain adherents in Bavaria and Prussia". In the summer of 1923, the Daily Mail supported the Italian occupation of Corfu and condemned the British government for at least rhetorically opposing the Italian aggression against Greece. On 25 October 1924, the Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter on its front page and the newspaper campaigned vigorously against the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald as being weak against Communism. The Zinoviev letter had been written not in Moscow, but rather in Berlin by Vladimir Gregorivitch Orlov, a Russian émigré who specialised in forgeries designed to provoke distrust and fear of the Soviet Union who was in contact with MI6. The letter had been leaked to the Daily Mail by MI6. It remains unclear even today if MI6 was aware that the Zinoviev letter was a forgery or not. Rothermere seems to have believed in the authenticity of the Zinoviev letter (which the Foreign Office had vouched for), which confirmed for him all of his fears about the Labour Party. After the election, Rothermere boasted in a letter to Beaverbrook on 1 November 1924 that the Zinoviev letter had cost Labour about 100 seats, and were decisive in giving the Conservatives a majority. In 1923 Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail forged an alliance with the other great press baron, Lord Beaverbrook.