Everyone who enters Freemasonry is, at the outset, strictly forbidden to countenance any act which may have a tendency to subvert the peace and good order of society; he must pay due obedience to the law of any State in which he resides or which Carrain Alberto Ghe, Naval Attache to the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, is leaving for home in October after five years' stay in Japan. He will be succeeded by Captain a well-known expert on sub-may afford him protection, and he must never be remiss in the allegiance due to the Sovereign of his native land.
While English Freemasonry thus inculcates in each of its members the duties of loyalty and citizenship, it reserves to the individual the right to hold his own opinion with regard to public affairs. But neither in any lodge, nor at any time in his cap-city as a Freemason, is he permitted to discuss or to advance his views on theological or political questions.
The Grand Lodge has always consistently refused to express any opinion on questions of foreign or domestic State policy either at home or abroad, and it will not allow its name to be associated with any action, however humanitarian it may appear to be, which infringes its unalterable policy of standing aloof from every question affecting the re-
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