Happy July 4th: The Shocking, Untold Story Of The Lusitania
How many Presidents and history books have lied about this? In the age of the internet, there are no secrets.
Photo: It isn’t like the Germans didn’t warn us!
Subterranean work by London
The British were far cleverer in their propaganda, which was carried out from a government building named Wellington House. This aspect of the story unfolds in documents in the British National Archives, the papers of the Times of London correspondent Arthur Willert at Yale and in other archives.
Despite Britain’s avowed democratic principles, Wellington House worked so quietly, even members of Parliament were unaware it existed.
In the United States this work was surreptitiously carried out by the novelist Sir Gilbert Parker, journalist Willert, and others who wooed opinion molders and planted stories in the American press.
A sign of their success was the lavish, tendentious press attention given to German spying in the United States and the absence of reporting on Britain’s underground activities.
“It should be noticed that no attack has been made upon us in any quarter of the United States,” Sir Gilbert Parker wrote in one of his periodic reports, “and that in the eyes of the American people the quiet and subterranean nature of our work has the appearance of purely private patriotism and enterprise.”
The British had an enormous advantage in communicating their point of view.
In the first hours of the sinking of the Lusitania, they cut Germany’s transatlantic cable lines. This limited Germany’s capacity to send news to the United States and the ability of American correspondents in Berlin to send their reports home.
The British could be as heavy-handed as the German military. When William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers gave play to the German side of events, the British totally cut off their access to transatlantic cables. Then in a flurry of diplomatic activity, which produced hundreds of memoranda and cables, Foreign Office officials persuaded Commonwealth countries to do the same.
The British also cleverly magnified German public relations missteps.
Shortly after the sinking of the Lusitania, an artisan in Munich produced a medal depicting the event. This was a small, commercial endeavor involving fewer than five hundred medals, but the British made it appear yet another instance of the whole of Germany celebrating its brutality. The British even claimed school children were given a holiday in Germany to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania.
The British distributed pictures of the medal to newspapers and magazines both inside and outside Britain.
But how did the British have all this set up within moments of the sinking?
Aleister Crowley, Bristish master spy did a lot more for England than anyone ever knew. When he died his name was destroyed and even after Hitler the Brits still call him the most wicked man or the wickedest! After Hitler! So he died sacrificing his name and honor for his country. No one knew years later hippies would think he was cool! LOL! President Wilson was the first President to illegally send arms, ammunition and money to a foreign power. Crowley arrived on the Lusitania (!) and was instructed to tell Germans the time and night the ship was to be secretly loaded. ( Isn't it odd that people who believe in "black flag" conspiracy stories never talk about the real ones?)
Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship
By SAM GREENHILL FOR THE DAILY MAIL
UPDATED: 20:16 EDT, 19 December 2008
The Cunard vessel, steaming from New York to Liverpool, was sunk eight miles off the Irish coast by a U-boat.
Maintaining that the Lusitania was solely a passenger vessel, the British quickly accused the 'Pirate Hun' of
slaughtering civilians.
The disaster was used to whip up anti-German anger, especially in the U.S., where 128 of the 1,198 victims came from.
A hundred of the dead were children, many of them under two.
Robert Lansing, the U.S. secretary of state, later wrote that the sinking gave him the 'conviction we would ultimately become the ally of Britain'.
Americans were even told, falsely, that German children were given a day off school to celebrate the sinking of the Lusitania.
The disaster inspired a multitude of recruitment posters demanding vengeance for the victims.
Gregg Bemis, an American businessman who owns the rights to the wreck and is funding its exploration, said: 'Those four million rounds of .303s were not just some private hunter's stash.
'Now that we've found it, the British can't deny any more that there was ammunition on board. That raises the question of what else was on board.
'There were literally tons and tons of stuff stored in unrefrigerated cargo holds that were dubiously marked cheese, butter and oysters.
'I've always felt there were some significant high explosives in the holds - shells, powder, gun cotton - that were set off by the torpedo and the inflow of water. That's what sank the ship.'
More on the sinking of the Lusitania
Why is this still denied by the British government?
Because under British law, the relatives of those killed could still sue.
America after the Civil War and 1 million dead and thousands of women raped in the South by Northern troops were pacifists in the highest numbers in the entire history of the country. But the sinking of the Lusitania would end that pacifism.
Had Germany won World War 1, which they lost because we entered the war, there would be no Treaty of Versailles demanding Germany pay every nation for the cost of the war. There would have been no depression in Germany. No rise of communists or national socialists. No civil war in Spain. Ireland would have become a Republic. No Hitler. No 70 million dead.
Sometimes victory, is actually defeat.
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Happy July 4th.