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THE SETTING
Hoping to draw the United States into the "Great War" (World War I), British Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill had, in May, 1915, engineered the sinking of The Lusitania. As the munitions-laden liner approached British waters, the British Mad Dog called off the ship's escorts so that a German U-boat could torpedo the sitting duck. About 1,200 passengers and crew were killed, including about 100 Americans. Needless to say, the doomed passengers knew nothing of the explosive contraband that was being secretly transported from New York to London.
But it was not yet time for America to enter the brutal war. Not only did President Wilson have a re-election to win in 1916, but certain other pieces had yet to be put in place -- one being the internal overthrow of the "anti-Semitic" Russian Tsar (allied with Britain & France), and the other, well, we will get to that shortly.
Contrary to what most people think, the May 1915 sinking of Lusitania did not bring America into the war -- although the memory of the event was indeed resurrected for propaganda purposes two years later.
As 1915 drew to a close, the war, though now at a stalement, found the aggressor Allied powers of