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Shortly after the publication of this note Secretary Lansing gave an interview to the representatives of the American press in which he stated that America was very near war. This interview he later explained. As soon as possible after my return to Berlin I had interviews with Zimmermann and the Chancellor.
Mexico will receive as her reward her lost provinces of Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico." "Ask the Mexican government," said Dr. Zimmermann, "to propose to the Japanese that Japan break away from her alliance with England and join Mexico and Germany in an attack upon the United States." The publication of this note made a tremendous change in feeling in the United States.
Agnes Zimmermann and Dora Bright receive high praise for their chamber music, while Rosalind Ellicott, Amy E. Horrocks, Edith Swepstone, and Ethel Boyce have been chosen to represent the larger vocal forms. Among song composers are cited Maude Valerie White, Florence Gilbert, Frances Allitsen, Florence Aylward, Liza Lehmann, and Katharine Ramsay.
From Edward M. House Embassy of the United States of America, Berlin, Germany. March 27, 1915. I did not think of it until to-day and have mentioned it to both the Chancellor and Zimmermann, who have received it cordially, and who join me in the belief that it may be the first thread to bridge the chasm. I am writing hastily, for the pouch is waiting to be closed. Faithfully yours, E.M. HOUSE.
Zimmermann said that we were such personal friends that he was sure we could continue to work, as we had in the past, in a frank and open manner, putting all the cards upon the table and working together in the interests of peace. I, of course, agreed to this and it seemed, on the surface, as if everything would go smoothly.
A word was coming out clear, writing itself unmistakably in the middle of the line, at the bottom of the sheet a signature. Zimmermann! "From the General Staff!" said Hillyard, in a whisper of excitement. "My word!" He looked at Fairbairn with an eager smile of gratitude. "It's your doing that we have got this yours and Lopez Baeza's!"
Grant proceeded to inspect the concession called 'Insimankáo, the Asamankáo of M. Zimmermann. It is the name of the village near which Sir Charles Macarthy was slain: our authorities translated it 'I've got you, as the poor man said to the gold, or the cruel chief to the runaway serf. Mr. Dawson, who is uncle by marriage to Mr. Grant, had also suggested this digging.
When von Jagow, Minister of Foreign Affairs, was absent at the Great General Headquarters, the diplomats remaining behind conducted their negotiations with Zimmermann, who in turn had to transmit everything to the great general headquarters. In August, there were apparently rumours afloat in countries outside of Germany that prominent Socialists at the outbreak of the war had been shot.
"Do not dull people bore you?" said one of the lady-boarders, the same that sent me her autograph-book last week with a request for a few original stanzas, not remembering that "The Pactolian" pays me five dollars a line for every thing I write in its columns. There never was but one man whom I would trust with my latch-key." "Who might that favored person be?" "Zimmermann."
I did not learn until several months afterwards that Herr von Igel had been asked to go to the United States by Under Secretary of State Zimmermann for one of two purposes, either he was to purchase a controlling interest in the Du Pont Powder Mills no matter what that cost, or he was to stir up dissatisfaction in Mexico.
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