Show STATE DEPARTMENT WARY Refuses to Discuss Our Spanish I Complications Washington Sept 22The state department de-partment officials refuse to discuss the most important statement made la the Associated Press cable dispatch from Madrid namely that the countries of Europe with the exception of Austria justify the interposition of the United States in favor of a termination of the Cuban war Still it is recalled that while Mr Woodford was tarrying in an apparently pUrposeless manner in I London and Paris instead of proceeding proceed-ing to his post In Spain It leaked out that the United States ministers at various va-rious European courts had been instructed in-structed to souad the governments to which they were accredited with a view to learning how intervention in favor of Cuba would be regarded Although it was generally supposed at the time that this effort would not succeed there is wow good reason to accept tho statement state-ment In the Madrid cable as fully I warranted by the facts I |