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The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1
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By Liakhovetsky, Ivan Mikhailovich (Maisky)

The Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1

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Page 55

19 December
The newspapers can’t stop writing about the Franco-Soviet alliance. On its front page, under the banner headline ‘The Conditions of the Franco-Russian Pact’, the Star has published the stunning news that an agreement on the pact was finally reached on 10 December, that the alliance has been drawn up for five years with the option of a further five-year prolongation, and that it is clearly directed against Germany and Japan. According to the Star’s sources, the alliance is of a defensive nature and stipulates cooperation between the staffs of the two countries, full cooperation in the air, the exchange of military missions, the immediate provision of the Soviet army with 400 French tanks, etc. In the event of a Japanese–Soviet war, France undertakes to supply ammunition and other war matériel to the USSR to a value of 4 million francs; and in the event of a Franco-German, war the USSR undertakes to supply grain to France to a similar sum. The pact does not stipulate direct mutual military assistance. This shocking sensation is seasoned with portraits of Laval and M.M. [Litvinov].
Newspapers and agencies immediately inundated the embassy with questions. The telephone rang off the hook. We had to issue a flat denial.
Where did the Star get this nonsense? Who thought it up?
In any case, the issue of a Franco-Soviet alliance appears to be very much in the air. Not without reason, perhaps. But the Star’s scoop is most premature. It might never become reality.
I received a visit from F.W. Pethick-Lawrence,
Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence (1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence), Labour MP, 1923–31 and 1935–45.
a former member of the Labour government and current president of the Dimitrov Committee.
The International Dimitrov Committee was set up by leftist intellectuals, among them André Malraux and André Gide, to secure the release of Dimitrov, head of the Bulgarian Communist Party, who was interned in Leipzig and charged with setting the 1933 fire which destroyed the Reichstag.
He spoke in the name of his committee and in the spirit of the Declaration of the 43. I replied in the spirit of my conversation with the Coles. In the end the old man calmed down and cheered up.
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Document Title19 December
AuthorLiakhovetsky, Ivan Mikhailovich (Maisky)
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Date1934 Dec 19
AOC VolumeThe Complete Maisky Diaries: Volume 1
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