Reverse Zimmermann

Now what if The German government gains a few IQ points and decides not to send the Zimmermann note. However at the same time what if the British Government attempts to bring the US into the war by forging a note or through other means. I've heard some things about how Churchill plotted just such a thing during both world wars though I know nothing of how accurate such claims are.

But basically the British government tries to trick the US into entering the war and is caught.

Exactly what kind of response would be expected?
 

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But basically the British government tries to trick the US into entering the war and is caught.

Exactly what kind of response would be expected?

Robert Lansing asks to meet with Churchill alone, holds up the telegram and hisses, "It's a faaake!"
 
Since there is no way the British can send a fake German telegram along the three different German diplomatic channels used for Zimmerman's message, not to mention through the hands of key German diplomats who will have a pretty good idea if something is...different about a particular note...
 
Since there is no way the British can send a fake German telegram along the three different German diplomatic channels used for Zimmerman's message, not to mention through the hands of key German diplomats who will have a pretty good idea if something is...different about a particular note...

Not talking about the fact Zimmerman was dumb enough to admit the not was genuine twice! There was speculation the note was a fake before then but then the idiot opens his big mouth and admits it.
 
I'm trying to determine why the US Secretary of State is going take several weeks in time of crisis to sail to France and confront an unimportant mid-level army unit commander named Churchill...:D



Oh, no, he insisted it was true to an American reporter on the German payroll who practically begged him to deny it...although how he could deny a telegram sent on his own orders and through his own office on the special line specifically and illegally provided by the Wilson Administration...
 
Robert Lansing asks to meet with Churchill alone, holds up the telegram and hisses, "It's a faaake!"
Only to have the ship he's sailing back to the US on to announce that it's a deception be mysteriously blown up and it be blamed on the Germans, cue the US entering the war against them. ;)
 
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