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"Exploding in his Hands." Cartoon by Rollin Kirby in The [New York] World just after
the Zimmermann telegram was made public
Meanwhile, the problem of authenticity, which had so troubled the
Anglo-American officials and stirred uneasy questions in the Senate and
the press, had been eliminated by Zimmermann himself. Completely
unexpectedly, he confessed: "I cannot deny it. It is true." Knowledge of
the plot had been blandly disavowed by the Mexicans, the Japanese, and
Eckardt, and to this day no one knows why Zimmermann admitted it.
His acknowledgment buried the last doubts that the story might have
been a hoax.
Suddenly, Americans in the middle of the continent who could not get
excited about the distant poppings of a European war jerked awake in
the realization that the war was at their border. Texans blinked in
astonishment: the
Germans meant to give away their state! The Midwest, unmoved
annaabi.ee 
