Soviet–French Non–Aggression Pact

Moscow welcomed these proposals and on August 10, 1931, the Soviet Union and France initialed a non–aggression pact.

In January 1932, Paris added that the preliminary signing of a similar agreement between Moscow and Bucharest had become mandatory for the conclusion of a Franco–Soviet non–aggression pact.

The improbability of an imminent signing of a Soviet–French non–aggression pact became apparent in the spring of 1932, when the head of the French government André Tardieu announced the idea of rapprochement between the five Danube countries (Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia).

With the resignation of Tardieu and the formation of the Édouard Herriot government on June 3, 1932, Soviet–French contacts returned to a dynamic character.

Article Five contained a mutual obligation of non–interference in each other's internal affairs, in particular of refraining from "any action tending to incite or encourage any agitation, propaganda or attempted intervention" and so on.