TheCodeBreakers
Room 40 then looked
closely at other official Swedish messages. Many of them proved to be
German as well; concealed under one superencipherment, for example,
they found Code 0075. But this time England entered no protest. Hall
perceived that it was more advantageous to listen to what the Germans
were saying than to stop them from talking.
The second route that Zimmermann used was of such simplicity,
perfidy, and barefaced gall that it probably remains unequaled in the
annals of diplomacy. It had its inception in the pompous mind of Colonel
Edward M. House, President Wilson's alter ego and a major exponent of
personal diplomacy. On one of his missions to Europe in 1915, House
arranged to have coded reports from the embassies cabled directly to
him, bypassing the State Department. When, on December 27, 1916,
Ambassador
Bernstorff discussed a new peace attempt by Wilson with House, he
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