Which statement best explains how the evidence from this excerpt leads to the inference that the message
Zimmermann sent was important?
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.
On January 16, 1917, in a clear attempt to convince the
Mexican government to help Germany in the war, Arthur
Zimmermann, the German foreign secretary, sent a
telegram to Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador
in Washington. The foreign secretary wanted to be certain
that this message reached von Bernstorff, so he made
arrangements for it to be carried aboard a U-boat to Sweden
and from there to Washington through diplomatic channels.
Because Arthur Zimmermann rarely sent telegrams to
von Bernstorff, the contents of the message had to be
very important.
Because the message was so important and needed to
reach von Bernstorff, Zimmermann wanted the message
to be carried across the ocean in a U-boat.
The telegram's destination, Washington, D. C., suggests
that the contents of the telegram were important to the
Germans and the British.
The route the telegram was to take, first to Sweden and
then to Washington, D. C., supports the idea that the
contents of the message were important.