Gene,
The Black Tom blast does not have such a close connection to the
Lusitania as you seem to suggest.
The Black Tom blast was clearly a conspiracy of German agents to destroy
munitions being supplied to the Allies by a "neutral" (the USA). (Hello
to those of you against "conspiracy theory".)
The Lusitania sinking had three responsibilities, the German for the
torpedo; the British for allowing a passenger ship to half of having
its cargo as munitions, for knowing of U-20 plans off the coast of
Ireland (via having cracked the German code) but not telling acting
thereupon, and for failing to provide even a single destroyer escort as
it came in (as a contrary example, its heavy battleship /Orion /got 4
destroyer escorts on May 4, 1915) ; and the U.S. for allowing a
passenger ship to depart with munitions in violation of neutrality and
in spite of German published advertisements in the U.S. papers that the
Lusitania could be subject to attack. I am not sure I would label this
one a conspiracy UNLESS, say, Churchill, being in charge of the
Admiralty, intentionally set up the occasion for the attack (which some
claim he did, and actually he chose to vacation at that time).
Three more days until the anniversary of the sinking!
"Remember the Lusitania" was one of the U.S. slogans justifying
participation in WWI on the side of the Allies, the other two being
"Make the world save for democracy" and "The war to end all wars". Or
perhaps I missed some.
Paul
Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 14:35:20 -0700
From: Eugene Coyle<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Lusitania, left NYC exactly 100 years today, May
1!
On May 2, 2015, at 12:00 PM,[email protected] wrote:
>Lusitania, left NYC exactly 100 years today, May 1!
Yes, it embarked, still enroute?
What about the Black Tom blast that leveled a big chunk of Jersey City in the
same era?
What is going on? WHAT is going on?
Gene
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