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dated May 16, 1955: Communist Alliance

Russia and seven Eastern European Communist States signed a European Pact of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance in Warsaw on May 14, the East German news agency ADN reported. The signing ceremony took place in the marble hall of the Polish Seum (Lower House of Parliament). "The pact unites nearly 300 million people to a firm union of peace to whom, as the Chinese observer stressed at the ceremony, more than 600 million people of China will be added," the agency said, adding that "the peaceful character of the pact is being underlined by the fact that it is open also to other States which recognise its principles." The pact was concluded at a three-day conference attended by Marshal Bulganin, the Soviet Prime Minister, and leading Communists from the other countries. It is designed as a reply to the inclusion of West Germany in the Western defence set-up. The treaty was signed by the following Prime Ministers: Mehmet Shehu (Albania), Cherven (Bulgaria), Andras Hegedues (Hungary), Otto Grotewohl (East Germany), Josef Cyrankiewic (Poland), Gheorohiu Dej (Rumania), Nikolai Bulganin (USSR) and Viliam Sirosky (Czechoslovakia).

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