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.
Which statement best explains how the evidence from
this excerpt leads to the inference that the message
Zimmermann sent was important?
Because Arthur Zimmermann rarely sent telegrams
to von Bernstorff, the contents of the message had to
be very important.
O 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.
O 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.