"You will… 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.
"You will… 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. Please call the President's attention to the fact that ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace".* So ends, FTP, what document, which, when intercepted by the British in January, 1917, prompted the US to join the Allies in World War I and strained relations with their neighbor to the south, who was implicated in the communiqué?
"You will… 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.
Zimmerman Telegram