English Translation

34 page I Appendix toa Report of I3.13.43. Release number 480/43. *Czechoslovak citizens! This evening in Moscow the text of the contract between the U.D.S.,R. and the Czechoslovac Republic of friendship of mutual assistance and post-war cooperation was published. The introduction and the 'profit' are: For some time now, negotiations have been held on the conclusion of a treaty of friendship and mutual pedigree and post-war cooperation between the U.d.,S.S.R. and the C.S."R. These negotiations were conducted in the spirit of mutual confession and freedom and culminated in the conclusion of the Treaty and Friendship in Moscow on I2.I2.43 and in the signing of the Rotokoll annexed to the Treaty.The result was signed in the Kremlin: For dax Presidium of the Most High Soviet of the U.S. S.R. by Mr Vacheslav MikhailovichMolotov People's Commission for Foreign Affairs and for the Government of the C.S.R. by Mr Zdenek Fierlinger, Ambassador of the CSR in the Soviet Union. Treaty concerning friendship, mutual assistance and post-war work between the .SR. and the U.D.SS. R. The President of the CISR and the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. have in desire to supplement and modify the yield of mutual help, which exists between the .S.R. and the U.d.P.S. R. and in question on I6.5. I9305, as well as the provisions of the Sberinkommen between the hegemony of the C.S, R., and U.D. S. R... of the I8.7éI94l , signed in London to confirm, in the hope of the war, to cooperate in order to maintain peace and to prevent a new attack on the part of Germany, to secure a permanent friendship and, after the ariage, mutual fieden cooperation, have decided to conclude and designate a contract in this wake as their Plenipotentiaries: The President of the U.S.R. Mr. Zdenek Fierlinger , Ambassador of the C.S.R. to the U.D.S .S. R. and there the Presidium of the Supreme Congress of the United States of America Mr Wiatscheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , People's Commission for Foreign Affairs , who , in exchange for their full , which were found in complete order and which were exhibited in the appropriate form, agreed on the following : Article I : The high contracting parties have decided to unite each other in a policy of lasting friendship and in friendly cooperation after the war and