The Foreign Affairs Commissariat was purged of Litvinov's supporters and Jews.[1][2] All this could well have purely internal reasons, but it could also be a signal to Germany that the era of anti-German collective security was past,[72] or a signal to the British and French that Moscow should be taken more seriously in the tripartite alliance negotiations[73][74][75] and that it was ready for arrangements without the old baggage of collective security, or even both.[7][8]