Lusitania and Maurentania Cut Rates

Of course, it's still five years before the Great War. The Lusitania was sunk in May, 1915, almost nine months after the war began.

Big Liners Cut Ocean Rate

Snarky Editorial Questions English Motives

The New York Times saw nothing alarming about the arms race between Germany and England, and here mocks worried souls and their visions of Dreadnoughts. (Use Toggle at top right to enlarge. Scroll down for opening paragraph.)

English Exaggerate Fear of Barbaric Europe

England Willing to Celebrate "America Day"

England Warns Us of Germanic Wave

One Triple Alliance

Italy was like, 'meh'.

Triple Alliance Made New

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The Kaiser's Kindly Feelings

Robert K. Massie's Dreadnought is a great history of the British/German naval rivalry that proceeded World War 1.

Kaiser to Recieve Clergy

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Africans Reject Prussian 'Virtues'

Who, what, when, where? At some point a Prussian officer declared, "Something must be done!" (according to Paul Fussel, a Prussian declaration that best demonstrates that culture's mind-set). What was the last straw, do you suppose?

Prussian Military Bans Blacks

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