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Sinking of the Lusitania...
Sinking of the Lusitania...
Item # 709882
May 10, 1915
THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT, North Carolina, May 10, 1915
* RMS Lusitania torpedoed and sunk
* Cunard Line passenger ocean liner
The front page headline of this bi-weekly newspaper announces: "GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS VESSEL AND TAKES TOLL OF 1,198 LIVES" with subheads: "LUSITANIA ATTACKED AND SENT TO BOTTOM OF SEA WITHOUT WARNING" "Greatest Crime Yet Committed During Progress of the European War Startles the World' "Many Helpless Women & Children Among the Passengers Who Were Drowned Like Rates--Grave Situation Confronts United States".
The text has much detail.
Eight pages, very nice condition.
background: The May 10, 1915, edition of The Greensboro Patriot serves as a chilling time capsule of the moment American isolationism began to fracture under the weight of "unrestricted submarine warfare." By framing the event as the "Greatest Crime" and describing the deaths of women and children with the haunting phrase "drowned like rats," the paper reflected a profound shift from neutral observation to moral indignation. The speed of the sinking—a mere 18 minutes—and the loss of 128 American lives forced a "grave situation" upon President Woodrow Wilson, who was suddenly tasked with balancing a public clamoring for justice against a deep-seated desire to avoid the "European War." This front page captured a world in transition, where the Victorian-era codes of naval chivalry were being violently replaced by the clinical, submerged brutality of the U-boat, setting a diplomatic fuse that would eventually pull the United States into the global conflict two years later.
Category: The 20th Century
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