The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany.
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The war had already begun and the pamphlets distributed by Charles Schenk were a form of expressing <em>his opinion</em>, but he was trying to persuade <em>draft-age men to refuse military service</em>, and this was interpreted as an intention to result in a crime, and not merely a freedom of speech, accourding to the Espionage Act, passed shortly after U.S. entry into World War I.
