Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-25 | Page 1 | British, Poles Sign Pact for Mutual Help

POLES FOR FORi FORI i MUTUAL HELP I Drastic Treaty Serves as os Defiant Reply to Hitler S By WEBB MILLER 1 Aug 25 UP UP- UP Cry Britain signed a mutual fIB si treaty with Poland tonight tearing I g that she would fight attempt to destroy Polands Poland's impendence either by direct indirect direct attack or by ecoe eco- eco e strangulation ned aed cd in th the a steadily- steadily ing Europe rop n Dl risis r treaty disclosed ot of far assistance more dras- dras an n had been anticipated as a El of ot the British pledges given I f and nd d last April It w was s designed ed I defiant answer to Adolf Hit- Hit demand for a free hand in sten rn Europe as aswell well as a sting sting- to the new soviet- soviet man mn treaty r Applicable on Attack e e alliance would be on attack by any nation on 1 I but its terms in the present ton lion applied chiefly to Geror Ger- Ger or to Russia Rusia or to any Gerl Ger- Ger l move against again t Poland such as ast r pt f-pt t be made through Hungary t 2 of the treaty would leave it up to Poland tern determine ne whether German acOl acon ac ac- ac- ac tion Ol on against Danzig for instance threatened pu P Polish lish independence md and therefore should be resisted r U M 11 Poland decides to fight then would be bound to fight iUt her lit It was 35 as indicated that conclusion at the soviet German treaty speeds speeds' speed speed- a II s' s up P conclusion of the British- British Polish h pact in order to offset any that nazis hold as to whether i lain will ill fight Hitler's demand ia or 10 free action in eastern in-eastern eastern astern Europe The treaty was mutual Poland Peeing to aid jd Britain should the litter latter be le the victim of a aggression