(While the British denied this claim, evidence in recent years suggests the Germans were correct—the Lusitania was apparently carrying munitions.) Americans were repulsed. “The country was horrified,” recalled Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. If President Wilson asked for war, Lodge said, “he would have had behind him . . . the enthusiastic support of the whole American people.” When German leaders announced unrestricted naval warfare—the right to sink American merchant ships—anti-German fervor swept across the United States. At countless lunch counters, sauerkraut became liberty
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