RUSSIA: Russo-Turk Treaty

At Paris, M. Georg Tchitcherin and Tewfic Rushdi Bey, respectively the Foreign Ministers of Soviet Russia and Turkey, signed a three-year mutual guarantee compact in three articles and with three attached protocols:

The Articles. 1) Neither country shall attack the other. 2) Should naval or military action be taken against either party by a third power or powers, the other party agrees to remain neutral. 3) Neither party shall participate in any union or agreement of an economic or political nature which may be directed against the other party by a...

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