Time.news – There was Freemasonry behind the march on Rome which on October 28, 1922 brought Mussolini to power in Italy. 100 years after the march on Rome, the tests came out. Up to now the direct support of the great master Raoul Vittorio Palermi for Mussolini was known, his sympathies even after 1922.
Just as, on the other hand, it was known that the power of the Masons tout court represented the last democratic bulwark in the ascent of the young Mussolini. Precisely for this reason in 1925 the Duce outlawed Freemasonry and some exponents ended badly, some even killed.
What no one has had proof of so far was that Palermi himself was present at the march on Rome and paraded along with the small group of future ministers and undersecretaries of the first Mussolini government.which is not superfluous to remember abounded with non-fascists (think only of Gronchi, future president of the Italian Republic).
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The ‘smoking gun’, the proof of the presence of Freemasonry behind the march arrives today thanks to the four-year study conducted by Tony Saccucci, director, screenwriter, professor (he still continues to teach History and Philosophy at the Mamiani classical high school in Rome), author of ‘March on Rome’, the film directed by Irish director Mark Cousins which opened the Days of the Authors at the latest edition of the Venice Film Festival and is currently in cinemas.
Saccucci just last September 19 discussed his doctoral thesis in political science entitled ‘The film of the march’. A Phd that obtained the highest marks and honors, whose exhibition was also attended by Professor Fulvio Conti, one of the greatest historians of the history of Freemasonry in Italy.
“The use of cinema as a historiographical source is the future of historical research. This is the major contribution of my study to historical science ”, Saccucci told Time.news.
On the morning of 28 October 1922 Raoul Palermi with Ernesto Civelli was at the king’s house at 7.30 am – we read in the doctorate – and it was he who convinced him not to sign the order of state of siege that would have prevented the march. This is a well-known episode and is also told in Cousins’ film, but what is completely new is the fact that Raoul Palermi then took part in the march on Rome in the front row, alongside those who would later become the ministers of the fascist government.
The discovery of this presence among the fascist and liberal leaders of that first Mussolini government came only this summer and was the result of a complex high-tech operation. A facial recognition process on a few hundred frames of the film by Umberto Paradisi entitled ‘A Noi! From the festival of Naples to the triumph of Rome ‘where there are the only images of the event.
“I disassembled and reassembled the 64,945 frames that make up the 436 scenes of ‘A Noi!’ – Saccucci says – then thanks to the Faculty of Engineering of the ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome (to the team of Professor Francesca Campana) and to Morgana studio (with the DOP Filippo Genovese), the profiles of some demonstrators were ‘matched’ with photos with captions found in American newspapers and the presence of numerous known Freemasons was discovered “.
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Among these, the most important discovery concerns Raoul Palermi. His presence is the so-called ‘smoking gun’. A physical presence never experienced before. Yet he had been there, in those frames, for a century.
The grand master of Freemasonry, whose son Amleto Palermi had an artistic association and had been a partner of Paradisi until 13 October 1922, was the first person Mussolini met after receiving the king’s commission to form the government. There is documentary evidence of this. Just as there is evidence that many Masons paraded with Mussolini (the famous Balbo aside), including Giacomo Acerbo, undersecretary and right-hand man of the Duce, author of the law that bears his name which, with 25% of the votes, he gave to Mussolini 66% of the seats in Parliament.
Acerbo was initiated by Palermi himself at the 32nd degree of the Scottish Rite on November 6, a week after he had assumed the post of undersecretary, when he was already preparing the minutes of the meetings of the Council of Ministers.
After a hundred years, therefore, thanks to this monumental study and the help of the modern technologies of the University of Rome, an important piece is added to the history of Italy.
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Tony Saccucci
Palermi by King Vittorio Emanuele III to convince him not to sign the order of state of siege. Palermi, the first to meet Mussolini after he received the job. Palermi, posing for the usual photo with the government. A powerful ‘sponsor’ who, however, like other illustrious personalities, first of all the sovereign, did not get what he hoped for.
For the entire duration of Fascism Raoul Palermi will write hundreds if not thousands of letters to the Duce – it can be read in Saccucci’s long work – and, after having attempted suicide in 1929, he will receive a pension of 3,000 lire a month until April 1943. A resolution dated 25 July 1943 is kept in the State Archives, ie the day of the Grand Council that deposed Mussolini, in which the annuity for Palermi is renewed.
A perhaps not honorable end for what in 1922 was one of the most powerful men in Italy (or so it seemed to be in that autumn).