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On May 2 , 1935, France and the USSR concluded a pact of mutual assistance. Laval had taken the precaution of ensuring that the bilateral treaty agreement was strictly compatible with the multilateral provisions of the League Of Nations Covenant and Locarno Treaties . What this meant in practice was that military assistance could be rendered by one signatory to the other only after an allegation of Unprovoked Aggression had been submitted to the League and only after prior approval of the other signatories of the Locarno pact ( Great Britain , Italy and Belgium ) had been attained. The effectivness of this pact was undermined even further by the French government's insistent refusal to accept a military convention stipulating the way in which the two armies would coordinate actions in the event of war with Germany. It was so watered down that by the time it done it was little more than the hollow diplomatic threat of a war on two fronts for Germany, should it pursue an aggressive Foreign Policy . Most of the Locarno powers felt that it would only act as a means of dragging them into a suicidal war with Germany for Russia's benefit. It marked a large scale shift in Soviet policy in the Seventh Congress Of The Comintern from a pro-revisionist stance against the Treaty Of Versailles to a more western-oriented foreign policy as championed by Maxim Litvinov . The treaty was used as an excuse by Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland , as was strictly prohibited under the Treaty of Versailles. SEE ALSO |
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