The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

most well-known fascists and deputy grand master of the Grande
Oriente, the leading grand lodge in Italy, left the Fascist Party so as
not to hetray the ideals of freemasonry.
In 1925, Mussolini gave an interview in which he said that in Italy
Freemasonry was a political organization that was subservient to the
Grand Orient of France.
In the summer of 1925, Mussolini ordered the dissolution of free-
masonry in Italy. In an open letter to II Duce, Domizio Torrigiani,
grand master of the Grande Oriente d'ltalia, demanded that demo-
cratic principles be respected. Mussolini ordered him exiled to the
island of Lipari in 1927, where he later died.
On 4 November 1925, the masonic socialist Tito Zaniboni attempted
to murder Mussolini. General Capello was arrested for complicity and
was sentenced to 30 years in prison (Sven G. Lunden, "The Anni-
hilation of Freemasonry", The American Mercury, No. 206, February
1941).
Following the anti-masonic agitation, the black shirts were in-
volved in many illegal actions against the freemasons between 26
September 1925 and 4 October 1925. They entered the homes of
many well-known freemasons in Milan, Florence and other cities and
killed 137 of them. The Grand Master Raol Palermo escaped but was
caught and murdered.
On 9 January 1926, Mussolini confiscated the assets of the lodges.
He only persecuted those freemasons that disliked his government.
The freemasons never forgave Mussolini's limiting their means to
act, after having helped him organize his march on Rome on 27
October 1922 that forced King Victor Emmanuel III (also a freemason)
to appoint him prime minister on 31 October. The freemasons lied to
the king that the garrison of Rome only had 6000 men (actually
there were 28 000) to put up against the fascist black shirts 100 000
(actually 40 000).
In all secrecy Eugenio Chiesa was elected new grand master in
1930. After the Second World War, Guido Laj became the legitimate
grand master.
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