Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The legacy of the Munich conference
- 2 March 1939 and the decision to build an eastern front
- 3 The British guarantee to Poland
- 4 The military consequences of British involvement in the east
- 5 The financing of the eastern front
- 6 The Soviet Union: the rejected partner
- 7 August 1939
- 8 September 1939: war in the east
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The legacy of the Munich conference
- 2 March 1939 and the decision to build an eastern front
- 3 The British guarantee to Poland
- 4 The military consequences of British involvement in the east
- 5 The financing of the eastern front
- 6 The Soviet Union: the rejected partner
- 7 August 1939
- 8 September 1939: war in the east
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
AGREEMENT OF MUTUAL ASSISTANCE BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND POLAND
The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Polish Government:
Desiring to place on a permanent basis the collaboration between their respective countries resulting from the assurance of mutual assistance of a defensive character which they have already exchanged;
Have resolved to conclude an Agreement for that purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:
The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
The Rt. Hon. Viscount Halifax, K.G., G.C.S.I., Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:
The Polish Government:
His Excellency Count Edward Raczyński, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Polish Republic in London:
Who, having exchanged their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following provisions:
Article I
Should one of the Contracting Parties become engaged in hostilities with a European Power in consequence of aggression by the latter against that Contracting Party, the other Contracting Party will at once give the Contracting Party engaged in hostilities all the support and assistance in its power.
Article 2
(1) The provisions of Article I will also apply in the event of any action by a European Power which clearly threatened, directly or indirectly, the independence of one of the Contracting Parties, and was of such a nature that the Party in question considered it vital to resist it with its armed forces.
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- Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939 , pp. 201 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987