Cooperative agreements in education, maritime transport and correspondence pacts between intelligence agencies were signed. Pacts and renewals (or modernizations) of earlier alliances reinforced the confederacy. Military alliances can be classified into defense pacts, non-aggression pacts, and ententes. Pieces of paper like nonaggression pacts interested him little. Polyaenus and Strabo write how the Thracians broke their pacts of truce with trickery. Britain brokered the Pacts of May that ended the race. Similar Mutual Assistance Pacts were signed with Latvia and Estonia. There were various electoral pacts and unilateral decisions. Sorcerers often gain power by entering into diabolical pacts with Chaos Lords. Here, he stated that people who consulted augurs were entering ""quasi pacts"" (covenants) with demons. Their relations are regulated by the Lateran pacts. The same year the pacts on Chilean copper were signed. The merchant navy, too, was augmented by trade pacts with Russia and Genoa. Suicide pacts are also in the United States. This anomaly was not formally resolved until the Lateran pacts of 1929.