Only now was he throwing in his lot with a US government that detested the idealistic but ramshackle coalition of six parties headed by Dr Salvador Allende, the country doctor and upstanding freemason who was set on introducing elements of social democracy in a country long organised for the benefit of the landowners, industrialists and money men.
FOR centuries, a new freemason swore not to reveal the society's secrets on pain of having his throat cut and his tongue torn out and buried in the sand at low water.
Chris Mullin, the Labour MP who led the parliamentary inquiry, believes that these days being a freemason is becoming a hindrance in public life rather than a help.
She is now out of prison on bail.Resistance fighter, freemason, operatic tenor, art collector, brilliant lawyer, wily politician, and one of the most colourful characters of Mitterrand's colourfully scandal-ridden reign, Mr Dumas is fiercely resisting pressures to force him to step down, seeing them as politics by other means.
In April a magazine called Masonic Quarterly will be launched, and in June freemasons will jog through London for charity, wearing T-shirts emblazoned "I am a freemason".
The movement was ignited in 1826 by the mysterious disappearance of William Morgan, a bricklayer in western New York who supposedly had broken his vow of secrecy as a Freemason by preparing a book revealing the organization's secrets.
He was a freemason all his adult life and a keen sailor.
There is an affecting performance, too, from Eddie Marsan as Bunty's hen-pecked husband, the accountant and freemason Clifford Blades, who mistakenly regards Robertson as his most loyal friend.
Amid much pomp, a venerable Freemason offered a state official a velvet cushion bearing a peppercorn on a silver platter, before the assembled dignitaries retired for afternoon tea.
One was addressed to Mr Clegg and on the envelope was written "devil worshipping", "freemason", "sex with 30 plus women".
