Word: lusitania
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After concluding a large number of treaties with foreign powers providing for investigation and arbitration of disputes he saw his work destroyed by the World War. When the "Lusitania" sank Mr. Bryan, who is a pronounced pacifist, resigned because the President's protest to Germany was too warlike. Since then his political activities have not been so extensive though his brother Charles W. Bryan was nominated for the Vice Presidency last year largely through his efforts...
...years ago today the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. America needed just that shock to force active participation in the world war. The bitter wave of hatred which followed in the wake of this calamity swept America forward to the rescue of the Allied nations. It was for is great cause...
...best interests of America demand peace; she is doing all in her power to further disarmament. And yet on the very crest of anti-war agitation the United States is unintentionally making it possible for the war feeling to live on. Today thousands of Americans are thinking of the Lusitania with renewed malice. Those who realize the danger of this attitude lack the moral courage to point...
...sympathy with Germany's militaristic regime, that one is led to condemn America's present day manifestations of patriotism. It is rather because America's future is as deeply concerned with world peace as any nations. But never can this be attained until such old grievances as the Lusitania are allowed to sink into oblivion...
...then announced that John Wallace Riddle, Ambassador to Argentina, had resigned. The circumstances of his retirement were peculiar. On May 6, 1916, Mr. Riddle was married to Miss Theodate Pope, an architect by profession. Just 365 days earlier, she had been aboard the Lusitania which, when hit by a German torpedo, sank, throwing her unconscious into the water and drowning her two traveling companions. Shortly after her marriage, she went with her husband to Iceland and, en route, a boiler blew up and later the vessel burned at her pier. In 1921, she went with Mr. Riddle to Argentina...