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Grey: “What will America do if the Germans sink an ocean liner with American passengers on board?”

House: “I believe that a flame of indignation would sweep the United States and that by itself would be sufficient to carry us into the war.”
(“Colonel” Edward Mandell House, a conversation between “Colonel” House and English Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray The Lusitania, p. 134.)

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War: 1915. World War I