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To: allmendream

“Germany was conspiring with Mexico and Japan to get them to attack us”
Pardon me, but Japan was at war with Germany by 1915.
The English had promised them the German and Austrian properties in China for attacking them.


38 posted on 04/01/2008 4:34:01 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: nkycincinnatikid
Doesn't change what the Germans planned or what the Zimmerman telegram said.

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann/

39 posted on 04/01/2008 4:42:12 PM PDT by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD)
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To: nkycincinnatikid

The Germans entertained ideas that they’d get the Japanese to switch sides.


40 posted on 04/01/2008 4:56:05 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: nkycincinnatikid

“Pardon me, but Japan was at war with Germany by 1915.”

Yes, I remember seeing a picture of Japanese destroyers operating in the Mediterranean with British units during WW1 and thinking “how odd.”


101 posted on 04/02/2008 9:49:32 AM PDT by Levante
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