BRITAIN'S WRITTEN PLEDGE TO POLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 201, 26 August 1939, Page 10

BRITAIN'S WRITTEN PLEDGE TO POLAND.

IN TREATY FORM.

Applicable- In Case Of Attack Or Threat.

JOINT RESISTANCE.

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LON'DOX, August 2fl,

'J ho Foreign Secretary, Viscount Hnliiitx, and the Polish Ambassador have signed nn agreement for mutual assistance between the United Kingdom and Poland. The pact consists of eight clauses, making effectual the provisional agreement reached during Colonel Bock's visit to Britain and announced in the House of Commons on April 0.

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One S i , J m>v,slon * of Article action - "I'P'y the event of any action by a European Power which clearly threatened, directly or indirectly, * ° f ° ne of the contractt !.»♦ P m ? ud . Was of BUch « nature vit„i t Pn - : V .' n (,ueßtion considered it ntal to resist it with its armed forces Should one of, the contracting parties become engaged in hostilities with a -uropean Power in consequence of action Ln i ° r Which threatened the independence or neutrality of another Kuiopean State, in such a way as to constitute a clear menace to the security of that contracting party, the provisions in Article One will apply, without prejudice, however, to the rights of other European States concerned.

Article Three.—Should a European Power attempt to undermine the independence of one of the contracting parties by processes of economic penetration, or in any other way, the contracting parties will support each other in resistance to such an attempt. Should the European Power concerned thereupon embark on hostilities against one of the contracting parties the provisions of Article One will apply.

Bv Article Seven the contracting parties agree that they will not conclude an armistice or a treaty of peace, except by mutual agreement.

CARRYING ON.

I lie Horuign Office, in n statement, says: "It is a source of lively satisfaction tn hotli Governments tlint the negotiations for the present agreement have been no speedily and satisfactorily concluded" (says ft liritisli official wireless message).

I ho preamble explains that the agreement, urises out of the desire of two parties to place on a permanent basis the collaboration resulting from the assurances of mutual assistance of a • ensm, eharactcr which they have al.oa.ly exchanged. The text of the down t , ". vtk ' ,eH - in w '«icli are laid the i c ' I-cul,,B taiiceß in which no patties would come to each other'* assistance, arc as follows: —

Article One.—Should one of the contracting parties become engaged n hostilities with any European Power in consequence of aggression by the latter against that contracting party the other contracting party will at once giv® the

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