1912

Articles from 1912

The Crown Prince: Saber Rattler (Current Literature, 1912)

The son and heir of the German Kaiser, Crown Prince Wilhelm III (1882 – 1951) was known well throughout the pre-war era for demonstrating his dislike of the German Government’s peaceful policies and especially for his belligerent, anti-British remarks, which caused tremendous embarrassment to the Imperial German Chancellor, while giving no end of pleasure to the hot-heads of Berlin.

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Two Governments Weigh In On The Titanic Disaster (Literary Digest, 1912)

An overview of both the British and the American reports concerning the sinking of the Titanic.

An interesting comparison of the American and British official investigations of the Titanic disaster was published…the conclusions is reached that although the American investigators were practically an ‘avenging’ body and the English a ‘vindicating’ one, the recommendations made by the two come to very nearly the same thing…[but]in the matter of responsibility, the reviewer finds marked dissimilarity.

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Titanic Didn’t Have to Sink (The North American Review, 1912)

As an architect of U.S. Navy battleships and a popular New York politician
Lewis Nixon (1861 – 1940), maintained throughout this article that the full array of 1912 technology was ignored in the planning of Titanic‘s first (and only) voyage:

We have in our battle-ships devices to show when water enters compartments, and by simple and economical devices it would be possible to have the depth to which water has risen indicated on the bridge, and on merchantmen as well as on our men-of-war searchlights should be carried.

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H.G. Wells’ Remarks on the Titanic Disaster (The Bookman, 1912)

Writing as a devoted socialist, H.G. Wells (1866 – 1946) saw the Titanic disaster through the lenses of one who has come to only expect the worst from the British class structure:

It typifies perfectly to his mind the muddle of the present social situation and illustrates the incompetence of the upper class in modern society.

It was the penetrating comment of chance upon our entire social system. Beneath a surface of magnificent efficiency was -slapdash. The ship was not even equipped to to save its third-class passengers; they placed themselves on board with an infinite confidence in the care that was to be taken of them, and most of their women and children went down with the cry of those who find themselves cheated out of life.

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Titanic Obituary: Francis D. Millet (Literary Digest, 1912)

Journalist, artist and American Civil War veteran Francis D. Millet, (1846 – 1912) was also one of the doomed passengers on board Titanic. Prior to the sinking, Millet had enjoyed some success as a muralist.

Among the institutions possessing canvases by Millet are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Museum, the Union League Club, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg, and the National Gallery of New Zealand.

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