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The Lies of War
The Lusitania - Precursor to America’s Entry to WWI
The hand of the invisible government has found it needful to devise atrocities that will mobilize
public sentiment in favor of entry into war. The powers which govern realize that Americans are
reluctant to engage in foreign wars. This was all the more true a century ago after a long period of
isolationism. Americans viewed World War I as an European conflict. Most citizens of the United
States believed that it was none of their affair. The banking interests needed some event to serve as
a catalyst to move American opinion in the direction of open engagement in the war. The sinking
of the ocean liner Lusitania proved to be that catalyst.
The sinking of the Lusitania was a contrived affair. Although reported as an unprovoked attack of
a German submarine on a defenseless passenger ship which carried nothing that threatened
Germany’s war effort, the truth was far different. Of course, it was not the truth which was reported
in the New York Times, or other newspapers of America. They printed propaganda with the sole aim
of getting the American public to embrace entry into the war.
Cunard Lines, a British shipping company, owned the Lusitania. They had turned the ship over to
the British Navy for use by England in her war against Germany. The First Lord of the Admiralty
during WWI was Winston Churchill. The Lusitania was operating as an auxiliary ship of the English
Navy.
Churchill sent the Lusitania to New York City where it was loaded with six million rounds of
ammunition, owned by J.P. Morgan & Co., to be used by England and France in their war against
Germany. England broke the German war code on December 14, 1914, and by the end of January
1915 British Intelligence was able to advise the Admiralty of the departure of every German U-boat
as it left for patrol. Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty knew when German U-boats
would be in the area of the English Channel, the body of water which separates England and France.
