ABSTRACT
We have those facts in a way that Chief Stewart could hardly have imagined when he picked up the Bell telephone on Christmas Eve 1919. And yet something more is needed before we close the file. In the second half of the book I write in the first person and invite the reader to be not so much a factual as an intellectual and historical detective. I use the Freedom of Information Act and introduce some fresh evidence. It is not decisive. Nor claimed to be so. But as you rake over the embers of this trauma-ridden case, you pick up the odd circumstantial clue; and above all a sense of the fierce heats of that furnace which smoulders away in the guilts and ideals of the United States.
