Word: half-truth
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...politics. Again, he degenerates into a likeable person who is tempted to put personal loyalty above an abstract and cold, blooded justice. But like most moralists, Hugh has a stubbornness in his nature which does not admit of compromise. His philosophy will not permit the acceptance of a healing half-truth in place of the rending whole. In spite of the unbending character of his hero, Arthur Train makes an interesting indictment of political chicanery. Although the great god of coincidence may be a trifle overworked, one nevertheless gets the distinct impression that justice is a some-what sottish spirit...
...called a Commonwealth as long as it remains an Empire. And to call it a Commonwealth is a Gross and Shameful perversion of truth, in the interest of creating a favorable impression for an institution that may not command respect otherwise. To put it mildly, it is only a half-truth. And as Tennyson said...
...truth that is only a half-truth is the blackest of lies...
...Chinese who, as recent events have shown, are not slow to exchange their medieval methods of warfare for the modern system devised in the Occident, have accordingly made looting a crime. This is, of course, only a half-truth, because in China there is no National Army, but an enormous number of private armies, each governed by a different discipline...
...second premise, that Hughes sentiment in the University is "pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally," whereas in the rest of the country it is pro-German, is less than the pro-Greman, is less than the proverbial half-truth. If by militarism he means an adequate state of national preparation against the calamity of war, then he is right. But pro-Ally sentiment is in no manner of means associated with the Hughes cause in Harvard. They may overlap; they are not co-terminous; they surely have no relation. That is a fact so patent that it scarcely needs statement...