Foreign observers, commenting on these annexed statements, said they wondered whether the; annex meant Russia understood it was impossible for peace to be reached and simply wished to support Germany to draw out the conflict. Other observers said the Soviet-German treaty demarcating respective territories in Poland created a "permanent link" between the two countries, which have become mutually interested in forestalling any Polish renaissance.
The. commercial agreement, they continued, seek economic co-opera tion for many years with both coun- 4 tries ce-ordinating their production and economic development so as to have Soviet raw materials go to Germany while German industrial equipment goes to he U.S.S.R.. Commercial exchanges, under the treaty, are to be the greatest ever carried out between the two nations, but are not unlimited. They are to scale th 1100000000. marks.
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