Word: lusitanias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers...
...have hoped some one far more learned and qualified might undertake the task which I reluctantly approach for want of one more fitted for it. The larger part of your quotation brings to mind his extemporaneous Faneuil Hall mass meeting speech in Boston, following the sinking of the Lusitania, when, though a feeble old man always a hater of war, he held an audience of thousands spellbound by his militant appeal for loyalty in the common cause of mankind against the common enemy, the autocracy of the imperial German Government, even though that loyalty should involve...
...Miss Spence five days a week, eight months of the year for more than eight years. She was a small rugged person with a quick step and a determined eye. I never saw her shocked but once-that was at the news that the Lusitania had been sunk. She did not call for smelling salts. She called the school together and announced neither she nor any institution she was connected with was neutral under the circumstances. WINTHROP B. PALMER (Mrs. Carleton Palmer) New York City
That the Germans were also entitled to sink the Lusitania was roundly declared last week by one of Britain's highest naval authorities, Admiral the Earl of Cork and Orrery, commander of the British Home Fleet (1933-35), President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Admiral Commanding the Royal Naval War College (1929-32). To a London audience, over which gradually fell a great hush, the Admiral declared: "The Lusitania might have been used to transport 10,000 American troops on a single voyage to fight Germany. If women and children choose to cruise about in war areas...
France also thought of the Lusitania. The Commission on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies sent a message of sympathy to the Swedish Ambassador that mentioned specifically "the unforgettable precedent of the Lusitania...