SAADABAD PACT
CHANGE SUGGESTED
MILITARY ALLIANCE
COUNTER TO SOVIET AGGRESSION
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CAIRO, January 25
.Afghanistan and Iran have suggested to Irak that the Saadabad NonAggression Pact should be converted into a military alliance against Russian aggression. The Saadabad Pact includes Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Irak. It is suggested that Egypt might join.
The Treaty of Saadabad was signed on July 8, 1937, and was originally negotiated at Geneva nearly two years earlier. The pact was. described as one of friendship, consultation, and non-aggression, designed to assure political security in the Middle East. The four Powers undertook to respect their common frontiers and to abstain from aggression and from interference with each other's internal affairs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 7
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