ABSTRACT
The party leadership approved a resolution calling for the conclusion of a regional treaty system that would provide for mutual assistance in the event of German aggression and for the entrance of the Soviet Union into the League of Nations. The British ambassador reported that there was “a growing impression” that France and the Soviet Union were moving toward a mutual assistance pact. The public opinion he actually wished to influence was French, and his goal was to stir the French into action on the mutual assistance pact. The essence of the arrangement was an eastern pact of mutual assistance including the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, and the Baltic states. A separate Franco-Soviet treaty would guarantee the general pact and would provide for direct mutual assistance between the two nations in the event of war. On 18 September, the day the League approved Soviet membership, Maxim Litvinov addressed the Assembly.
