Winston Churchill Gave Rousing Speeches

But he was a vile human being whose only competence seemed to be in getting the United States involved in wars that it should not have been. That can never be said enough. Still, I'm surprised thay the fact the Lusitania was carrying war materials is being reported as news. I thought that was established knowledge. Heck, for that matter British officials, and probbaly the Wilson administration, knew it at the time.

Ralp Raico notes in his classic Rethinking Churchill that some historians, including those sympathetic to Churchill, believe the sinking of the Lusitania was arranged by Churchill in an attempt to bring the United States into the war.