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April 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Ben Guggenheim’s last words were used in 1997 hit film Titanic
- Playboy was entitled to ‘first class’ lifeboat but would not leave valet behind
By
David Wilkes
09:41 EST, 10 April 2012
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03:47 EST, 11 April 2012
It was one of the most haunting tales to emerge from the Titanic disaster.
While others rushed to the lifeboats as the ship sank, millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim stoically sat sipping brandy with his personal secretary Victor Giglio, declaring they were ‘prepared to go down like gentlemen’.
‘No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim was a coward,’ he told a survivor.
Loyal: A newly-discovered photograph Victor Guglio, left, shows the valet had dark-skin, which may explain why his master Ben Guggenheim chose to go down on the liner rather than allow the servant to be denied a place on a ‘first class’ lifeboat
Guggenheim famously told other passengers ‘we’ve dressed in our best and we’ll go down like gentlemen’ as they smoked cigars in the dining room. The immortal words were recorded in the 1997 Titanic film (pictured)
Now, for the first time, a face can be put to the name of Mr Giglio.
The first ever picture of Victor Guglio was found by Fr Anselm Cramer at the boarding school where the boy was educated
An archivist at Ampleforth, the North Yorkshire boarding school he attended, has unearthed this picture (right) of him aged 12.
The photograph – taken in 1901, 11
years before he died on the Titanic – shows Mr Giglio, the son of an
Italian father and Egyptian mother, dressed in his school uniform for a
group shot.
Unlike the much-photographed U.S.
industrialist Mr Guggenheim, who died aged 46, no photographs of Mr
Giglio were believed to exist.
But after the Maritime Museum in
Liverpool appealed for information about Mr Giglio to mark the 100th
anniversary of the sinking, Fr Anselm Cramer, the archivist and
librarian at Roman Catholic boarding school Ampleforth, uncovered the
lost image in the school’s files.
He also found tributes to Mr Giglio,
who was the youngest of four brothers born in Liverpool to an Italian
father and Egyptian mother, in the school’s journal from 1912 and 1913.
One, from then Ampleforth headmaster
Father Edmund Matthews, said: ‘Those who knew Giglio at school will not
require any assurance that he met death bravely and even willingly
rather than, perhaps, take the place of someone else in the lifeboats.’
One of his schoolmates added at the
time: ‘I did not expect to see his name in the list of survivors. Giglio
was unlikely to be saved when any were lost.’
Passengers wait to be rescued in Julian Fellowes’ Titanic drama, which also depicted Guggenheim’s last words. It is likely that Guglio would have been denied a lifeboat because of his skin colour
Fateful voyage: The cruise liner Titanic sets off from Southampton docks on April 10, 1912
In a further journal a year on from
the disaster Mr Giglio’s mother is reported to have presented the school
with books and music as a memorial to her son, who was a talented
pianist.
Yesterday Fr Cramer said: ‘Going back
to Victor’s time a greater part of the student body came from the
thriving Catholic business community in Liverpool, so it is not
surprising that he attended Ampleforth.’
John Graves, Curator of Ship History
at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, South East London,
confirmed: ‘It is a rare photograph, I’m not aware of any other
photographs of Victor Giglio.
‘He must have been valued by Guggenheim because he travelled first class with him.
‘His chauffeur, who also died on the Titanic, was travelling second class.’
Doomed: An original White Star Line photograph of the Titanic leaving Belfast shows the ship cutting through the wave
Disaster: An artist’s depiction of the moment the ship went down shows the mad scramble to safety among the handful of passengers who managed to get lifeboats
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I think Guggenheim’s words were best portrayed byHarold Goldblat in the 1958 film “A Night to Remember”: “We are dressed in our best, and prepared to go down like gentlemen”. That film is still the gold standard for all Titanic films.
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Oh for heaven’s sake DM! The Titanic was not a ‘cruise liner’ it was a transatlantic passenger ship. Big difference, namely it was the only way to get across the Atlantic in those days.
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It is his son…….
– Samual, Devon, 10
They do look alike!
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Did class and honour go down with the Titanic ..? Certainly the equilibrium changed after WW1 now it is everything down to the lowest common denominator..
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Victor was Benjamin’s illegitimate son. I thought that was common knowledge.
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another possibility is that they were also lovers, very common in those days
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It is his son…….- Samual, Devon, 10/4/2012 17:00======================== Good grief, I tend to agree with you. The same features, look at the mouth! It’s very possible…
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This is his son.
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Sadly not a lot of fact in this one again. A footnote, in this day and age, if a woman can independently travel she gets gets in line like anyone else. A 100 years of female liberation has seen to that.
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I have to agree with another poster, the boy looks like him, especially his eyes and lips. I am not trying to take away from Guggenheim’s act of nobility, but I think it would help explain why he valued his servant so much.
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