AMERICAN APPEAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9

AMERICAN APPEAL.

"PEACEFUL ADJUSTMENT." NEW YORK, June 1. The Secretary of State (Cr Cordell Hull) announced in Washington that he had appealed to the German and Spanish Governments, through their ambassadors, for a peaceful adjustment of the crisis arising irom the bombing of the German "pocket battleship Deutsehland by the Loyalist aeroplanes and the subsequent German shelling of Almeria, in Spain. The New York Times says that Mr Hull's action is one infrequently taken and reflects the grave concern which is developing concerning international aspect of the Spanisu civil war and the hope of the United States that the conflict will he kept isolated from the remainder of Europe. Mr Hull's representations were limited to conversations with the Ambasadors, and it is emphasised that the American diplomats in Europe are not authorised to make representations. Later Mr Hull conferred with the British Ambassador to Washington (Sir Ronald Lindsay), but said that it was not connected with the Spanish situation. Mr Hull revealed that the Spanish Ambassador contended that the bombardment of Almeria was a violation of international law, but did Ji6t request the United States to act. The German Ambassador declared that the Deutsehland was within her rights in being in lbiza because she was off duty.. He said he had direct information from Berlin that the battleship did not fire on Loyalist planes, either before or after the bombing. Mr Hull declined to say whether the United States would apply the Neutrality Act to Germany.