I think the title detracts from the substance of the article. Certainly Benito and Adolf were aware of the similarities of their respective economic systems to FDR’s New Deal and it was in their interest to praise the similarities. And, no doubt, FDR’s people looked on Benito’s Italy with some admiration. However, I do not think you could find much praise from FDR’s people for Herr Hitler’s NSDAP.
German national socialism and the Italian fascism were two distinct ideologies. Their economic programs were similar — opposed to free markets, private ownership and management of industry, and every aspect of individualism — but their objectives were different. For one thing, German national socialism was far more anti-Christian and was obsessed with Aryan superiority and the enslavement and/or eradication of human beings they thought inferior, especially Jews, Roma, and Slavs. Italian fascism expressly supported the Roman Catholic Church as being integral to the Italian fascist project and expressly opposed any persecution of the Jews. (It wasn’t until after Nazi control in 1943 that the Holocaust came to Italy.)
Though you’d be hard pressed to find any praise from FDR for Hitler’s national socialism, John Maynard Keynes wrote that his general economic theory was particularly well suited for Hitler’s ideology in the forward to the German translation of Keynes’ magnum opus. Indeed, the economics of German national socialism, Italian fascism, and FDR’s NRA are almost indistinguishable.
In fact, Vatican City exists as a State today, thanks to Mussolini.