DIFFICILE EST SATI RAM NON SCRIBERE/ in exergue, DIE . LVSITANIA . MVENZE/ GIBT . LORD . BALFOVR/ STOFF Z. REDEN/ 9. XI.1916: First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour showing Goetz’s Lusitania medal to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and Winston Churchill; Goetz in the background sketches the scene while being reprimanded by Lord Grey
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ENGLISCHE HETZ ARBEIT IN SCHWEDEN: Bagpipe player wearing scroll which reads: FLUG/ BLATT/ EIN/ DEVTSCHER/ SEE SIEG/ 1916
KEINE BANNWARE/ in exergue, DER GROSSDAMPFER/ =LVSITANIA=/ DURCH EIN DEVTSCHES/ TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT/ 5 MAI 1915: Lusitania depicted as an armed cruiser,sinking, deck loaded with contraband armaments including aircraft and cannon
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GESCHÄFT ÜBER ALLES: Death in a Cunard ticket window inNew York City, standing near the line for tickets a man reads a newspaper on which is printed U-BOOT GEFAHR (“U-boat danger”); standing next to him a top-hatted and bearded figure, the German Ambassador tothe US Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a warning finger