This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelord, near Langto. His book is the approaching storm,

Roosevelt, Wilson, Adams, and their clash over America's future. Three voices, all looking

to progressivism in the wave of Trevor, a form in American government. But now they deal

with the crisis in Europe, the Zimmerman Telegram. The revelation of it pushes everyone

towards, we must do something. What was the Zimmerman Telegram, Neil? Well, Zimmerman Telegram

was one of the strangest episodes of this time. In early 1917, when there's all kinds of

decision making being made in Germany, particularly about the Umherstrian submarine warfare, the

decision we're going to go forward, someone cooks up this scheme or kind of resurrects the

scheme that will offer, Jeremy will offer almost a ladder to Mexico, saying, you know, if

you guys type American forces on the border, or if war comes with America and Germany,

you guys type forces on the border, American forces on the border will give you the chance

to re-acquire territory that was taken from you during the Mexican War, parts of say Arizona

and Mexico and things like that. It was a, as I said, a crazy scheme, but the message

was sent from Berlin and the British intercepted. The British were intercepting a lot of

car-a-lot of car-spawns at this time with Americans did not know. The British sat out for

a while, but eventually turned it over to the Americans and then the Americans in Wilson

were informed of it in late February. It was a scheme that had no basis in reality because

Mexico at this time was a country that was so unstable. Certainly, we're in no position

to wage any kind of successful war with the United States. It was, even some of the

higher-ups in Germany later on who didn't stop to it or claim they didn't know this message

was going to go over, said this was the most idiotic thing ever. But it did succeed

in angering large segments of the American population for a while anyway. Convinced

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