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You will inform the President of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal or alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. "We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. I shall send you by mail a copy of the cipher text and of the de-code into German and meanwhile I give you the English translation as follows: The last group but two is ninety-seven thousand five hundred and fifty-six, which is Zimmermann's signature. The first group is the number of the telegram, one hundred and thirty, and second is thirteen thousand and forty-two, indicating the number of You can probably obtain a copy of the text relayed by Bernstorff from the cable office in Washington. FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE.īalfour has handed me the text of a cipher telegram from Zimmerman, German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the German Minister to Mexico, which was sent via Washington and relayed by Bernstorff on January nineteenth. My fifty-seven forty-six, February 24, 8 a. Please call the President's attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace. We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. The decoded message that Germany sent to Mexico reads: After deciphering the message, the British Government passed its contents on to the American Government. The British ambassador expressed that the British Government would like the method in which the telegram was intercepted to be kept secret, but it has no restriction on making the telegram public. British intelligence intercepted the telegram and deciphered it. German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent an encoded message to the President of Mexico, in which plans to begin unrestricted submarine warfare were revealed and an alliance with Mexico was proposed, on January 16, 1917. The Zimmermann Telegram would be the catalyst to change everything. Ambassador Walter Page sent this telegram to President Woodrow Wilson conveying a translation of the Zimmermann Telegram. In January 1917, the United States was neutral in the European war that would eventually be called World War I.