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CHAPTER XXII
CRITICISM OF ISMAY
CRIMINAL AND COWARDLY CONDUCT CHARGED—PROPER CAUTION
NOT EXERCISED WHEN PRESENCE OF ICEBERGS WAS
KNOWN—SHOULD HAVE STAYED ON BOARD TO HELP IN
WORK OF RESCUE—SELFISH AND UNSYMPATHETIC ACTIONS
ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA—ISMAY'S DEFENSE—WILLIAM E.
CARTER'S STATEMENT
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FEELING IN ENGLAND
The belief in England was that the captain of the Carpathia had acted under Ismay's influence in refusing to permit any account of the disaster to be transmitted previous to the arrival of the vessel in New York. Ismay's telegram making arrangements for the immediate deportation of the survivors among the Titanic's crew was taken to be part of the same scheme to delay if not to prevent their stories of the wreck from being obtained in New York.
Another circumstance which created a damaging impression was Ismay's failure to give the names of the surviving crew, whose distraught families were entitled to as much consideration as those whose relatives occupied the most expensive suites on the Titanic. The anguish endured by the families of members of the crew was reported as indescribable, and Southampton was literally turned into a city of weeping and tragic pathos. The wives of two members of the crew died of shock and suspense.
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CHAPTER XXII
CRITICISM OF ISMAY
CRIMINAL AND COWARDLY CONDUCT CHARGED—PROPER CAUTION
NOT EXERCISED WHEN PRESENCE OF ICEBERGS WAS
KNOWN—SHOULD HAVE STAYED ON BOARD TO HELP IN
WORK OF RESCUE—SELFISH AND UNSYMPATHETIC ACTIONS
ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA—ISMAY'S DEFENSE—WILLIAM E.
CARTER'S STATEMENT
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