AMERICAN ATTITUDE
COMPLETELY ALOOF
WASHINGTON, June 1.
Senator E. W. Borah asserted that the German bombardment of Almeria amounted to an act of war. He demanded that the United States apply the recent neutrality law to all participants. , • The Spanish Emtiassy announced its intention of asking the United States ■to express its attitude concerning the bombardment. . ■ In the meantime there is no indication of a change in the American Government's policy of non-interven-The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, refused <to comment on Mr. Borah's statement. Mr. Hull said: "With dictatorship war is always an immediate possibility. Dictators regard their people as so much fuel to feed the war furnace. It is our duty to remain completely aloof." He indicated that no request had been made to the United States to apply an arms embargo on Germany.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 11
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