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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 231
with Americans on board.
On May 5
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two days before the sinking of the Lusitania, Colonel House seemed to be
aware that something was about to happen. Reporting to President Wilson from London he
wrote, “the sooner America entered the war the better.” His advise to Wilson was to take a hard-
line with Germany. Demonstrating his possible foreknowledge of the sinking of the Lusitania, he
stated: “a more serious breach may at any time occur.”
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David Allen Rivera reveals in his book,
Final Warning: A History of the New World Order, that Colonel House wasn’t in London for
peace talks, he was “making firm commitments that America would enter the war.”
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The German U-20 struck the Lusitania with a torpedo; a total of 1,198 people died,
including 128 Americans. One of the theories is that water rushing in from the hole in the hull
from the torpedo reached the gun cotton and exploded.
U.S. Government Legal Department Rules The Sinking Justified
After the sinking of the Lusitania, the State Department’s Lansing requested the
governments legal department for an opinion concerning the international case law in regards to
the sinking of the Lusitania. The legal department provided the following eye-opening opinion,
which apparently was never viewed by anyone but Lansing:
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Britain had obliterated the distinction between merchantmen and men of war.
2.
Therefore Germany had every right to sink the Lusitania.
3.
If Germany had not sunk the Lusitania, then a valuable cargo of munitions would
have passed through to Germany’s enemies.
4.
There was no basis in international law for the United States claim that the life of an
American citizen was sacrosanct even when aboard a belligerent ship of any category.
5.
That England had recognized this fact during the Russo-Japanese war and had
published a warning to her citizens against their taking passage in belligerent vessels.
6.
That the owners and operators of the Lusitania appeared to have committed a breach
of Section 8 of the Passenger Act of the Navigation Laws of the United States.
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A Cover-Up
Both Britain and the US covered up their complicity in the sinking of the Lusitania.
President Wilson immediately requested a report from Customs Collector Dudley Malone as to
whether the Lusitania was carrying contraband. That same day Malone completed a detailed
written report. He stated, “practically all her cargo was contraband of some kind.” The report
detailed great quantities of munitions. The American public would never learn the truth.
President Wilson obtained the original and supplemental manifest of the Lusitania, sealed it in an
envelope and marked the envelope with the words “Only to be opened by the President of the
United States.” The President then had the envelope and its contents placed in the treasury
archives.
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Prior to the Lusitania’s departure three Germans were sent to find and photograph her
guns. They were arrested and put in the ships brig. It is presumed that Gustav Stahl, a German,
was sent to get evidence of the guns after the three other men were arrested. Stahl made an
affidavit in New York, which stated he had seen concealed guns on the Lusitania. Stahl was
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