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?
O 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.
The telegram's destination, Washington, D.C.,
suggests that the contents of the telegram were
important to the Germans and the British.
O 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.