Wow... and here I thought the slant of the NYT was a modern contrivance.
The Lusitania DisasterOn May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans. A headline in the New York Times the following day—"Divergent Views of the Sinking of The Lusitania"—sums up the initial public response to the disaster. Some saw it as a blatant act of evil and transgression against the conventions of war. Others understood that Germany previously had unambiguously alerted all neutral passengers of Atlantic vessels to the potential for submarine attacks on British ships and that Germany considered the Lusitania a British, and therefore an "enemy ship."
A further note of trivia, the term ecology, the term so beloved by the environmentalists was coined by Ernst Haeckel (sp) of those phony ontology begets phylogeny drawings and the nuclear power for peaceful uses that the environmentalists hate so much was proposed by a Jew named Albert Einstein.