![]() Tensions between the US and Germany were already high this message pushed America over the edge. The settlement in detail is left to you.” “We make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The cipher was cracked about a month after interception by Britain’s “Room 40.” The text read, in part: In exchange for weapons and funding, the Mexicans would reclaim Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas upon victory. Intended for the German ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt, the Germans were preparing America’s southern neighbors for battle-in the name of Germany. ![]() Such is the case with the Zimmermann Telegram, a note sent from Germany to Mexico in 1917. Not all codes are so playful, or strange. After their eyes are washed, the referees then pluck a single eyebrow of each recruit.īetter than college hazing, though still an odd text to keep so secretive. The strange ritual involves initiates “reading” a blank piece of paper before being given a pair of glasses-those wily eye doctors. Dating from the second half of the eighteenth century, the first 16 pages discuss a masonic initiation ceremony by the Oculists.
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