United States. President Wilson goes to the Senate to propose a solution for Europe with a peace without victors, guaranteed by the United States. The president is unaware that a few days earlier, the Kaiser had approved the use of German submarines against all commercial traffic in the North Atlantic. He is also unaware of the Zimmermann telegram, a German offer to the Mexicans to reconquer Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in exchange for their military intervention against the United States. The telegram was intercepted and decrypted by British intelligence and was disclosed to the American president on February 24. The telegram was also recognized as genuine by the German government itself in March, which favored America’s decision to enter the war in April.
