Finally, there were the so-called Atlanticists. Ardently pro-Entente, they had championed American intervention in the war since the sinking of the Lusitania. Their primary political motivation was to prepare the US for a war with Germany and to forge an enduring military alliance with Great Britain. This group supported the Preparedness Movement and was strong among the Anglophile establishment; it included former President Theodore Roosevelt, Major General Leonard Wood, prominent attorney and diplomat Joseph Hodges Choate, former Secretary of War Henry Stimson, journalist Walter Lippman and Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. of Massachusetts and Elihu Root of New York.