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“Churchill Sank the Lusitania to Get America into the War”
19
Oct
2023
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
For a century now, rumors have swirled that “Lusitania” was deliberately sacrificed by the British, chiefly Churchill. His alleged aim was to so infuriate the Americans as to bring them into the war against Germany. More recently, critics charged that Churchill’s Admiralty conspired to steer the ship into harm’s way. Scholarly testimony to the truth exists—but lacking glitz and pathos, it tends to be ignored. Yet the facts refuting this slander have been known for decades.
Sinking RMS Lusitania: A Long-Lived Conspiracy Theory
24
Sep
2020
9
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
The first chapter of Nigel Hamilton's book, The Mantle of Command, states that the Lusitania was an “ill-fated American liner.” He leaves the impression that Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, had played a role in the sinking in order to get the United States into World War I.
Current Contentions: Churchill in the Digital Age of Fable and Myth
16
Apr
2020
By Richard M. Langworth
Churchill, who won a Nobel Prize, and did a few other things, cannot reply. He lies at Bladon in English earth, “which in his finest hour he held inviolate.” He’d love the controversy he stirs, on media he never dreamed of. He once said the vision “of middle-aged gentlemen who are my political opponents being in a state of uproar and fury is really quite exhilarating to me.”