In fact, he blamed President Wilson for breaking off relations with Germany "with extraordinary roughness" after the telegram was received, and that therefore the German ambassador "no longer had the opportunity to explain the German attitude, and that the US government had declined to negotiate".
Rent faktisk lagde han skylden på præsident Wilson for at afbryde relationerne til Tyskland "med usædvanlig hårhed" efter at telegrammet var modtaget, at at den tyske ambassadør derfor "ikke længere havde mulighed for at forklare den tyske holdning, og at den amerikanske regering havde nægtet at forhandle".