75 And 100 Years Ago Today - What Will We Say About US in 25 Years?

From the future: How feckless we were? Possibly.

100 Years Ago the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7th. It alterer American attitudes against the Germans, but as of May 10th, Wilson was not close to a decision for war for nearly two more years. America declared War, April 6, 1917. m/r

75 Years Ago Today | The Weekly Standard

11:28 AM, May 10, 2015
• By WILLIAM KRISTOL

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Seventy-five years ago today, on May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded Holland and Belgium. Conservative prime minister Neville Chamberlain was rebuffed by Labour in his request to join him in a National Government, and at 6 pm, King George VI asked Winston Churchill to form a government. Churchill immediately did so. Here's the last paragraph of Churchill's account in the final chapter of hisThe Gathering Storm:

During the last crowded days of the political crisis, my pulse had not quickened at any moment. I took it all as it came. But I cannot conceal from the reader of this truthful account that as I went to bed at about 3 A. M., I was conscious of a profound sense of relief. At last I had the authority to give directions over the whole scene. I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial. Eleven years in the political wilderness had freed me from ordinary party antagonisms. My warnings over the last six years had been so numerous, so detailed, and were now so terribly vindicated, that no one could gainsay me. I could not be reproached either for making the way or with want of preparation for it. I thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not fail. Therefore, although impatient for the morning, I slept soundly and had no need for cheering dreams. Facts are better than dreams.

The man of the century.

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