TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27058, 18 April 1949, Page 5

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP

CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY EASTERN NETWORK COMPLETED Rec. 8 p.m. LONDON, Apl. 16. Czechoslovakia and Hungary have signed a 20-year treaty of friendship and mutual aid against “ the menacing revival of German imperialism,” says Reuter’s Prague correspondent. The treaty supplemented Czechoslovakia’s existing alliances with the Roviet, Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria. The British United Press correspondent in Prague says the treaty completed the tight network of the Eastern alliances which link Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary. Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia through two-way agreements. These agreements could bring the whole Eastern block into concerted action if any one of the seven nations claimed it was threatened by aggression.