English Translation

1099 i-avesdütadbiel seb tenolbetiediedsiz eorToyapecpaublad had also previously received any desired support from hostile foreign countries and it should also be assumed at present that they would seek and find the ways, in particular to the very influential American Freemasonry. It was also certain that, despite the war that was still ongoing, they would now be met in many ways, so that these circles could have the successes that the fascist government had failed to achieve. If Italy were to fight even further, then it would be a sham struggle and the attempts for a special peace would not fail. Also the ruling dynasty, which was formerly traditionally associated with the Freemasonry, would now seek its salvation in a restoration of the old relations with the world freemasonries. It was more than likely that a re-establishment of the dissolved Catholic "partito popolare" would take place. But this would be a disaster for the Church, because this powerful party was quite liberal and parliamentary-democratic; its last boss, Don Luigi Sturzo, is said to have been friends, if not even a Mason, so at least with leading Italian politicians from Freemasonry; the Masons would have always played this party against the politics of Mussolini, as long as it existed legally. Badoglio also said that he was a Mason and belonged to a family in which the lodge membership is traditional, that the lower Italian clergy was in itself hostile to orders and hege liberal, or modernist sympathies. The Vatican's policy was not anticipated for the time being, but it was already clear that this change of circumstances would make it impossible for the Pope to be represented as the head of a sovereign state at the future peace conference. In the opinion of these Jesuits, the achievements of the Vatican State by the internal political