LUSITANIA: RENDEZVOUS
1 Its walls were covered: See details in “Saloon (First Class) Accommodations,” under “Lusitania Accommodations,” at Lusitania Resource, www.?rmslusitania.?info/?lusitania/?accommodations/?saloon.
2 Theodate found a copy: Letter, Pope to Ada Brooks Pope, June 28, 1915, Riddle Papers. Pope’s letter provides one of the most detailed accounts of shipboard life and the sinking that I was able to locate.
3 The paper devoted: New York Sun, May 1, 1915.
4 “The President was entirely unaware”: Ibid.; see also Berg, Wilson, 347–49.
5 A German drive: New York Sun, May 1, 1915.
6 “Whatever else could they expect”: Katz, Dearest, 103.
7 “Under no circumstances”: Ibid.
8 “Passengers are informed”: Ibid., 109.
9 “to head off American travel”: New York Sun, May 1, 1915.
10 “That means of course”: Letter, Pope to Ada Brooks Pope, June 28, 1915, Riddle Papers.
11 “My!… The mail I got today”: Letter, Huston to “Ruth,” May 1, 1915. This compelling bit of Lusitania arcana was provided to me by Geoffrey Whitfield. The letter is published in Kalafus, Poirier et al., Lest We Forget.
12 “swirling mist-veils”: Bisset, Commodore, 45.
13 Turner was under orders: “Answers of the Petitioner to the Interrogatories Propounded by May Davies Hopkins,” Petition of the Cunard Steamship Company, April 15, 1918, U.S. National Archives–New York, 3, 9; Memorandum, “ ‘Lusitania’—American Proceedings,” Admiralty Papers, ADM 1/8451/56, National Archives UK; minute, Nov. 19, 1914, Cunard Archives.
ROOM 40: CADENCE
1 Intercepted Position Reports: Minute Sheet: U-20, Ministry of Defence Papers, DEFE/69/270, National Archives UK.
PART II: JUMP ROPE AND CAVIAR
U-20: “THE BLIND MOMENT”