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Press Release Issued by the Department of State, January 9, 1937
In answer to inquiries at press conference, Acting Secretary of State R. Walton Moore said:
I do not think the reports coming in from Europe should cause undue alarm. I decline to believe that any war involving the leading European nations is about to occur. I decline to believe that any such adventure in suicide is imminent. On the contrary I am convinced that the leaders of those nations, knowing what a perhaps fatal blow another extensive war would be to the fabric of European civilization, will find some common sense methods of adjusting all controversies. Of course all the world would be glad to see the civil strife in Spain wholly localized.