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own 20-year term, was quickly in.
terpreted as a new avowel of bat
tie of extinction against Hitlerism
between two European fronts.
Announcing the agreement in the
House of Commons, Eden said Brit
ain and Russia were in complete
accord on the urgent task CT
opening new European front
against Germany, having paralleled
their treaty talks with new military
consultation, but he did not say
positively that it would be opened
this year.
In addition to second front STRAIT
egy, the military discussions which
had been carried on also in WASH
ington concerned means of further
improving deliveries of planes, tanks
and other war materials to Russia.
Announced by Foreign Office.
The understanding on the second
front also was announced in a For
eign Once communique. 1t said
that Molotov, along with the Rus
sian Ambassador to London, Ivan
Maisky: Gen. Issayev, representing
the Red Army, and Admiral Kharl-
lamov. representing the Red Navy,
participated in the discussions with
Prime Minister Churchill. Domin-
ions Secretary Clement R. Attlee,
Eden and British chiefs of staff.
The mutual assistance treaty. in
which Russia and Britain foreswore
interference with the internal al
fairs of other nations and territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, represented the
word of nations controlling five
twelfths of the earth's surface.
When the announcement had
been made in London, Russia s radio
programs were interrupted for a
reading of the text. The treaty was
the fruit of talks which started last
December in Moscow among Pre-
mier Joseph Stain, Molotov and
Eden.
Pledged to Rebuild Europe.
The announcement was the first
Official disclosure that Molotov had
been in the United States or London.
It was announced that Molotov
had had most useful and satisfac-
tory talks with the President in
Washington"
The British foreign secretary an
noumced the treaty in the House OF
Commons while Russian Ambassa-
dor Ivan Maisky smiled from the
gallery. MI Winant also was in the
diplomats gallery.
In negotiating an accord Russla's
first wish was for a treaty guaran-
teeing her western frontiers, includ-
ing the Baltic States Iithuania,
Latvia and Estonia), but it was un-
derstood that this was abandoned
in favor of the present, broader
commitments.
Russia absorbed the Baltic States
In 1910 but all now are in German
possession.
Lived at Country Residence.
Molotov, a descendant of genera
tions of humble Russian workers,
lived at Chequers, the stately coun-
try residence of Britain's Prime
Ministers, while he negotiated here.
On the day of the Commissars ar
rival, Eden, along with Foreign Un-
dersecretary Sir Alexander George
Montagu Cadogan and 1t. Gen.
Archibald Edward Nye, vice chief
of the British general staff, met
Molotov at a suburban London sta
tion and drove with him to
Chequers.
The negotiations began the next
morning at No. 10 Downing street,
Prime Minister Churchill's London
residence The following meetings
were held at Eden's Office. Eden,
Cadogan and Sir Orme Sargent,
deputy undersecretary in the
Foreign Office. represented Britain
in the treaty negotiations, while the
Soviet Union was represented by
Molotov, Ambassador Maisky and
Arkady A. Sobolev, secretary gen.
eral Of the Moscow Foreign Office.
The only spot of color at the
signing of the treaty, for which
Churchill lent his gold-mounted
fountain pen, was the light blue
uniforms of the RAF camera crew
which photographed the event.
When it was over glasses OF
champagne were brought in and
Churchill raised his glass in a
solemn toast, TO the treaty"
Left for Washington.
Half an hour later, after a
prosaic meal of sandwiches. Molo-
tov and his party left for Wash
irgton.
The treaty expressed the British
and Russian desire for a peace set
tlement and reconstruction on the
basis of principles enunciated in
the Roosevelt Churchill Atlantic
Charter of August IA, l941, to which
the Russian government had ad-
hered.
In summary. this eight-point
blueprint of United States and
British war aims, worked out at sea
oy the Prime Minister and the
President, calls for:
No territorial aggrandizement, no
territorial changes without the
freely expressed wish of the peoples
concerned, respect for the choice
of all peoples of their own, forms
of government with restoration
where deprived, equality of access
to raw materials, collaboration for
Improvement of social conditions,
freedom from fear and want, free
dom of the sea and abandonment
of the use of force with disarma-
ment of aggressors pending estab-
lishment of a permanent security
system.
The treaty provides "for common
action to preserve peace and resist
aggression in the postwar period"
1t pledges the nations mot to enter