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dated April 11, 1955: Russia to annul pacts

Russia has announced first steps to cancel her 20-year Treaties of Friendship with Britain and France - as she had threatened to do if they decided to rearm West Germany. The Treaties were signed during the war years - that with Britain in 1942 and with France in 1944. They provided for mutual assistance and cooperation. The announcement made at a press conference at the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow on April 9 said the cancellation was being made because the two Governments had ratified the Paris agreements "in direct violation" of their obligations under the Treaties. The announcement on the Anglo-Soviet Treaty said the British Government "regardless of its obligations under the Treaty had signed and the British Parliament approved the Paris Agreements providing for the remilitarisation of Western Germany and its involvement in military groupings directed against the Soviet Union. In view of this action of Great Britain, the Council of Ministers, in accordance with the position of the Soviet Government, has submitted to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet a proposal on the cancellation of the Treaty."

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