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I humbly disagree - Weimar had a French 3rd Republic size hateboner towards Poland. Upper Silesia, Posen, Corridor ... Any Poland reaching westward beyond the 1914 border would elicit such reaction from Weimar Deep State elites.

I don't think that Weimar would accept territorial losses to Poland ever. Same as the IIIrd Republic never accepted the loss of A-L in spite of their German speaking population. It took a Hitler to make peace with Poland (temporarily).

Wilson was ignored by the European powers. And the above principle was applied very losely. Especially where Germans - A-L, Tirol, Austria, etc., or Hungarians were concerned. Is that a typo or are you dumping on the guy? He wasn't? I thought France figured very high on his "to do" list from...

The clearly anti-Soviet stance helps in similar way as no Locarno. Sends a message of unwavering support. True that the newly emerged Central European countries are surrogate mini-Russias, but they need to be reassured that Paris will not drop them for the Soviet monsters at first opportunity...

No Locarno Treaty - or a DIFFERENT Locarno Treaty - would be a good foundation to assert itself versus Germany and to send good vibes to the French Attack Dog Block :) In Poland Locrano was/is perceived as being sold down the river by France and UK. I'm talking about the different treatment...

Easy - Paris has to react strongly to the remilitarisation of the Rheinland, not caring for what London thinks (which secretly was happy that it finally was getting a counterweight to French domination of the Continent). Hitler falls. Or the next time he suggests such a wild ride the generals...