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Telegram of the deputy peopleʹs commissar for foreign affairs of the USSR to the plenipotentiary representatives of the USSR in France, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Great Britain, USA, Italy, Germany, Poland, China, Japan.  August 29, 1937

According to the instructions of the government, today, on the 29th, we informed the diplomatic representatives of France, Czechoslovakia, and Turkey in Moscow about the conclusion of a non‐aggression pact between the USSR and china. The publication of the pact will follow on the 30th. Explaining to these representatives the meaning of this treaty, we noted: first, that negotiations on the conclusion of a Soviet‐Chinese pact had been going on for several years already; second, that some of the slowness of these negotiations was caused by china for well‐known reasons of both internal and foreign policy; thirdly, that recently the Chinese government has shown an active interest in concluding a pact due to a significant rise in sympathy for the USSR on the part of the widest circles of the Chinese people, as well as a result of international complications in the far east, naturally evoking the desire of the Chinese government to strengthen its friendly relations with other countries, and primarily with the USSR; fourth, that the Soviet government regards the conclusion of a non‐aggression pact between the USSR and china as a new step on the path of its unchanging peace policy and as an international manifestation that acquires the significance of a particularly timely action in the face of the far eastern conflict and that can contribute to the preservation of common peace. More detailed explanations of the true meaning of the SovietChinese non‐aggression pact will be given in the articles devoted to it in Izvestia and Pravda.

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