After 60 days of secret dickering, the time had come for the masters of 700 million people to seal their alliance with open panoply. Soviet dignitaries repaired to a Kremlin hall. In their center stood Comrades Joseph Stalin of Russia and Mao Tse-tung of China. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky scratched his name several times. China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did the same. The documents they signed proclaimed that: ΒΆ For 30 years, Russia and China would aid each other "with all means ... in the event of ... attack by Japan or any state allied with her . ....
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