All right!

M.M. maintains that the communiqué of 3 February should serve as the basis of the Moscow talks. He recommends advising Eden in a delicate manner not to raise the issue of old claims. He asks me to indicate to Eden and Simon that any alteration of the design of the Eastern Pact of mutual assistance is inadmissible to us, that Hitler’s opposition to the pact is a bluff that can be overcome with the assistance of Britain and France, and that in Berlin Simon should persuade Hitler to accept the pact rather than offer him any sort of compromise. I’ll point it out to them, but I doubt any good will come of it. Simon is Simon.

Litvinov’s instructions in DVP, 1935, XVIII, doc. 115.