Vansittart asked me over to brief me about the results of Barthou’s visit.

A full report is in DVP, 1934, XVII, doc. 246.

The British are very pleased with its outcome. The British government has promised to support the Eastern Pact scheme, as well as the project for a supplementary Franco-Soviet guarantee pact, but under the crucial condition that Germany be allowed to participate in the pact on an equal footing with France and the USSR. Simon will speak to this effect in the House tomorrow. The British ambassadors in Berlin and Warsaw have been instructed to advise (‘in a friendly manner’) participation in the Eastern Pact, while the British ambassador in Rome has been instructed to ask the Italian government to support the British move.