The news of the Lusitania was received at the American Embassy at four o'clock on the afternoon of May 7 1915. At that time preparations were under way for a dinner in honour of Colonel and Mrs. House; the first Lusitania announcement declared that only the ship itself had been destroyed and that all the passengers and members of the crew had been saved; there was therefore no good reason for abandoning this dinner.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
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