The Dark Game. On January 16, 1917, in a clear attempt to convince the Mexican government to help Germany in the war, Arthur Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary, sent a telegram to Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador in Washington
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game. On January 16, 1917, in a clear
attempt to convince the Mexican government to help Germany in the war,
Arthur Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary, sent a telegram to
Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador in Washington. The foreign
secretary wanted to be certain that this message reached von Bernstorff,
so he made arrangements for it to be carried aboard a U-boat to Sweden
and from there to Washington through diplomatic channels. Which
statement best explains how the evidence from this excerpt leads to the
inference that the message Zimmermann sent was important? Because Arthur
Zimmermann rarely sent telegrams to von Bernstorff, the contents of the
message had to be very important. Because the message was so important
and needed to reach von Bernstorff, Zimmermann wanted the message to be
carried across the ocean in a U-boat. The telegram’s destination,
Washington, D.C., suggests that the contents of the telegram were
important to the Germans and the British. The route the telegram was to
take, first to Sweden and then to Washington, D.C., supports the idea
that the contents of the message were important.
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