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pronunciation:
[tsimerman]
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| Politician, born in Olecko, NE Poland (formerly Marggrabowa, East Prussia). After diplomatic service in China, he directed from 1904 the E division of the German foreign office, and was foreign secretary (Nov 1916–Aug 1917). In January 1917 he sent the famous Zimmermann telegram to the German minister in Mexico with the terms of an alliance between Mexico and Germany, by which Mexico was to attack the USA with German and Japanese assistance in return for the American states of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. This telegram, intercepted and decoded by British Admiralty Intelligence, finally brought the hesitant US government into the war against Germany in April 1917. |
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