‘A secret letter which documents a private meeting between King
George V urging his Foreign Secretary Edward Grey to go to war with
Germany two days before the outbreak of the First World War has been
unearthed.
The incredible note, sent during one of the most difficult times in
British history has been made public for the first time, by Adrian
Graves, Sir Edward’s great-great-nephew and grandson of Sir Cecil
Graves.
King George V, who had stayed away from making public declarations
about Europe as his hands were tied as a constitutional monarch, said it
was ‘absolutely essential’ Britain go to war in order to prevent
Germany from achieving ‘complete domination of this country’.’
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The Lessons of World War I: The 100th Anniversary of the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
‘June 28, 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the famous political
assassination in Sarajevo, Serbia, that was the spark that started World
War I, the war that was widely called “the war to end all wars”,
because of the unendurable mutual mass slaughter of an entire generation
of young European men (on all sides of the war).
On June 28, 1914, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one of the wealthiest men in Austria,
was murdered in Sarajevo.’
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The Sinking of The Lusitania, America’s Entry into World War I, A Bonanza for Wall Street
‘Six days later, on the afternoon of Friday, May 7th, 1915, the
Lusitania approached within 12 miles of the southern Irish coast.
Winston Churchill, the Lord of the Admiralty, knew that German U-boats
were operating in the area after three ships had been sunk in the
previous 2 days. Not only did Churchill not come to the assistance of
the Lusitania but he ordered her planned escort, the destroyer Juno, to
return to Queenstown harbour. Earlier, the Lusitania had been ordered to
reduce speed by shutting down one of her four boilers (ostensibly to
save coal). She was a sitting duck and the entire Admiralty knew it.
Lusitania -Winston_ChurchillAt least one of Churchill’s officers,
Commander Joseph Kenworthy, was disgusted at the cynicism of his
superior. In his 1927 book, The Freedom of the Seas, he would write:
“The Lusitania was sent at considerably reduced speed into an area where
a U-boat was known to be waiting and with her escorts withdrawn.”’
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