In today’s newsletter: The far-right AfD may have come second, but at 20% they have been held off by the performance of mainstream parties, with the CDU leader Friedrich Merz on course to be the new chancellor
On this day in 1917, the British government provides the U.S. details of an intercepted German communique in which Berlin promises the return of New Mexico, Texas & Arizona if Mexico declares war on the United States. The Zimmerman Telegram helps draw America into WW1. pic.twitter.com/VipSb0SR0o
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