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Sign in via your Institution. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Zimmermann Note 19 Jan. Military Length: 76 words. All rights reserved. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. British Intelligence intercept and decode the message. February 3, Formal diplomatic relations between the US and Germany end. Wilson was aware of the Zimmermann Telegram. March 1, Zimmermann Telegram is published in American newspapers.

The answer was obvious. Everyone knew that America entering World War One to fight the Germans would help break the stalemate. The previous day, the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann, had sent a message to the German ambassador to Washington. The message used a code that had been largely cracked by British code-breakers, the forerunners of those who would later work at Bletchley Park. Zimmermann had sent instructions to approach the Mexican government with what seems an extraordinary deal: if it was to join any war against America, it would be rewarded with the territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

For the present, not a soul outside this room is to be told anything at all," Hall said after reading it. Part of the problem was how the message had been obtained.

German telegraph cables passing through the English Channel had been cut at the start of the War by a British ship. So Germany often sent its messages in code via neutral countries.

Germany had convinced President Wilson in the US that keeping channels of communication open would help end the War, and so the US agreed to pass on German diplomatic messages from Berlin to its embassy in Washington. The message - which would become known as the Zimmermann Telegram - had been handed, in code, to the American Embassy in Berlin at on Tuesday 16 January.

The American ambassador had queried the content of such a long message and been reassured it related to peace proposals. By that evening, it was passing through another European country and then London before being relayed to the State Department in Washington. From there, it would eventually arrive at the German embassy on 19 January to be decoded and then recoded and sent on via a commercial Western Union telegraphic office to Mexico, arriving the same day.

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