No surprise to anyone were the terms of the new Soviet-Czechoslovak treaty finally released last week. The pact signed at Moscow, with Joseph Stalin's and Eduard Benes' beaming approval, was first of all a 20-year military alliance, aimed against a specific enemy: Germany. The two Governments bound themselves to make no separate peace deal now, and to exchange full military assistance if either should be attacked by a resurgent Germany. For the postwar period they pledged full economic collaboration and agreed to keep out of each other's internal affairs.
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