Press Release Issued by the White House on December 2, 1939

The President, after consultation with the Secretary of State this morning, released the following statement :

"The American Government and the American people have for some time pursued a policy of wholeheartedly condemning the unprovoked bombing and machine-gunning of civilian populations from the air.

This Government hopes, to the end that such unprovoked bombing shall not be given material encouragement in the light of recent recurrence of such acts, that American manufacturers and exporters of airplanes, aeronautical equipment and materials essential to airplane manufacture, will bear this fact in mind before negotiating contracts for the exportation of these articles to nations obviously guilty of such unprovoked bombing."
Published in the book "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Japan: 1931-1941." Vol. II, United States Government Printing Office. Washington: 1943.

Japan and the Soviet Union were in 1939 pointed out as guilty of this kind of civilian bombing.

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