Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government—1955 [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations—France [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-116663. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-116663

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning Franco-Soviet relations. The file includes a draft of a French reply to Soviet note threatening to denounce a Treaty of Alliance and Mutual Aid between France and the Soviet Union -- a series of edits to the draft reply -- and a text of the original Soviet note. Other documents include a summary of Soviet press coverage of the exchange -- and a report from the British Embassy in Paris describing the French reaction to the Soviet note. The file also includes a report that the French Ambassador in Moscow received a letter from the Soviet government criticising the foreign policies of the Western powers -- and a list of the members of a French Parliamentary delegation visiting the Soviet Union.

Notes

• File date: 1955.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1985.

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