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"_There is some small fact thus far successfully suppressed, which, when known, will alter the trend of public opinion and clarify the whole situation_."
A sentence almost fatuous in its expression of a self-evident truth. One, too, which had been uttered by myself. But foolish and fatuous as it was, it kept ringing on in my brain all that day and far into the night, until I formulated for myself another one less general and more likely to lead to a definite conclusion: