Zimmerman telegram released, March 1, 1917
On March 1, 1917, American newspapers disclosed the contents of the Zimmerman Telegram, an intercepted proposal for an anti-U.S. military alliance if the United States entered World War I. Public outrage over the
idea would pave the way for the U.S. declaration of war on Germany in April. A March 1, 1917, article in the
Wisconsin State Journal of Madison, Wis., disclosed the details.
“Germany’s attempt to line Mexico and Japan in a hostile conspiracy against the United States has been
frustrated.
At the state department today it was intimated that so far as is known the letter of Germany’s foreign
secretary, Zimmerman, the authenticity of which was vouched for by President Wilson, personally, to the senate
today, never reached Mexico. In consequence, it was never passed on to Japan.”
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An April 5, 1917, article in The Sandusky Star Journal of Sandusky, Ohio, included text purporting to be
an unpublished portion of the Zimmerman Telegram. House will pass war measure
A Sept. 28, 1917, article in The Boynton Index of Boynton, Okla., contained new allegations of German plotting,
such as a proposal to buy influence in Congress. German diplomatic treachery
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