Dominion Governments were consulted at every stage of the Anglo-Soviet negotiations, and the United States Government was kept fully informed, it is learned here.
The join agreement formally con-socrates the state of ce-belligerency already existing between the two Governments in the war against Germany. It has no new legal sense of a treaty of alliance, but in fact both Governments bind themselves to render each other assistance of all kinds and agree neither to negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual agr ment.
The first point should facilitate negotiations now proceeding in London between General Golikov. Russian Deputy Chief of the General Staff, at the head of the Soviet Services Mission, and British authorities,
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