GERMANY AND RUSSIA
TEN-YEAR PERIOD
STALIN AS WITNESS
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received August 24, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. It was officially announced in Berlin that the Russo-German Pact was signed in Moscow by Hcrr yon Ribbentrop and M. Molotov in the presence of M. Stalin. The pact has a currency of ten years. Unless one cf the partners gives notice of termination one year before the expiration of the term of the pact it will automatically be prolonged for five years. Article One says that the two contracting parties \indertake to refrain from any act of force, any aggressive act, any attacks against each other or in conjunction with other Powers. Article Two states that if one of the contracting Powers becomes the object of warlike action on the part of a third Power, then the other contracting Power will in no wise support the j third Power.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 14
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