TheCodeBreakers
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Unleash the submarines, the generals cried, and England would soon
be "gasping in the reeds like a fish." The blockaders would become the
blockaded. For months the generals had hammered away on this theme,
and, as the signs of exhaustion multiplied, they finally prevailed. Foreign
Minister Zimmermann, who had long opposed the idea, fell in line. But
this big jolly bachelor, the first to break the Junker barrier in the higher
regions of the Kaiser's officialdom, perceived that the repeated sinkings of
American vessels would sooner or later torpedo American neutrality, and
he bethought himself of a scheme to counter this danger. He proposed a
military alliance with Mexico, then particularly hostile to the imperialistic
Norte-americanos as a result of Pershing's punitive expedition into
Mexican territory. He sweetened the proposition with an offer of money
and the possibility of support from Japan, standing at America's back,
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