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Parent Transferring materials concerning The Tripartite Pact and The Anti-Comintern Pact
Date 19 September 1947
Language English
Collection Tavenner Papers & IMTFE Official Records
Box Box 5
Folder General Memoranda and Reports from September 1947
Repository University of Virginia Law Library
But, as a non-aggression pact was signed between Germany and the U.S.S.R. Japan broke off the negotiations with Germany considering the latter?ÇÖs actions as betrayal of Japan. c) The negotiations renewed in September 1940 which resulted in the conclusion of the Tripartite Pact were not continuation of the previous negotiations on the question of strengthening the Anti-Comintern Pact, but they were of an independent nature. These renewed negotiations and the Tripartite Pact were not directed against the U.S.S.R. On the contrary, their purpose was to strengthen friendly relations between Japan and Russia and, on the other hand, to prevent the United States from participation in the European war. d) Japan?ÇÖs decision to enter into the tripartite alliance was based on Germany?ÇÖs promise to render assistance to Japan in the adjustment of her relations with the Soviet Union for the purpose of strengthening the friendship with the U.S.S.R. under the new conditions arising from the relations