IN April 1912, as the Titanic slowly sank into the cold sea in the dead of night, the first class passengers fought over places in the lifeboats. Sailors brought them under control at gunpoint, for the rules were, that women and children had to be given places first....

This is more or less what James Camerons famous film shows in a scene that conveys the callousness of the upper classes, and how they could not give in.

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