American indignation was directed particularly against Dr. Dernburg, who had defended, in public, the torpedoing of the Lusitania.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
The German answer of May 28th, which defended the torpedoing of the Lusitania on the grounds that she should be considered as an auxiliary cruiser and provided with guns, changed the situation in no way.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
The first act of the German-American negotiations on the subject of submarine warfare thus closed with this open threat that war would follow any further action by Germany on the lines of the torpedoing of the Lusitania.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff