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...Plot, it was declared, had been carefully hatched by Zaniboni and General Luigi Capello (famed anti-Fascist Freemason leader), who had motored to Rome from Parma some three days earlier. Before reaching Rome they are said to have halted near a thick pine grove in order that Zaniboni might receive last minute practice in the use of his rifle, which he fired for a long time at a target set up 100 yards distant in the woods...
Shortly after the event Fascist-censored cables and telegrams declared that a hot-headed Freemason, Giovanni Benciolini had wantonly shot and killed Cavaliere Luperini, a Fascist leader, and had then been set upon by an infuriated Fascist mob, which not only beat him to death but wreaked awful vengeance upon all Freemasons who could be found...
Curiously enough, when uncensored letters were received concerning these dark doings, it was represented that the Fascist leader who had allegedly been murdered without cause, had actually begun the trouble by striking an old Freemason, Cavaliere Bandinelli, violently across the face, while trying to make him divulge the names and addresses of all the Freemasons in Florence. Benciolini, a friend of the old man, had then shot the Fascist, and the harsh reprisals which followed were alleged to have been committed by disciplined Fascist militiamen...
...news of the insurrection was received with considerable alarm in Paris. The Catholic press, allegedly because General Sarrail is a Freemason and a Radical, bitterly attacked him for his administration of the Syrian mandate, charging that the defeat of French troops was solely due to his negligence and mismanagement. Sarrail's friends were quick to point out that the Catholics were actuated in their bitterness by purely sectarian motives; for they had nothing but praise for Marshal Lyautey in Morocco, although, so said these critics, he was far from blameless in causing the Moroccan...
...authority on Law, on Botany, has written much on each. Famed as a liberal, he opposed Attorney General Palmer's prosecution of the "reds" in 1919, pleaded for amnesty for political prisoners. Convention in law, unwieldy, useless, displeases him. He has suggested many judicial reforms. A Freemason, he once published a series of lectures on "The Philosophy of Free-masonry...