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    AHC – France sustains its post-Versailles security order for 44 years

    But that's the thing--once this territorial dispute would have been solved (or had it simply never been created in the first place), Weimar Germany would not have had any additional beef with Poland. And AFAIK Weimar Germany never disputed the loss of Posen.
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    AHC – France sustains its post-Versailles security order for 44 years

    Germany recognized an independent Poland back in 1916. It was a puppet Poland, but still. AFAIK, Germany's main beef with Poland was Danzig and the Polish Corridor, and to a lesser extent, Upper Silesia as well. Germany didn't care about the rest of Poland and indeed might have valued it as a...
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    AHC – France sustains its post-Versailles security order for 44 years

    As a side note, one way to get Germany to accept the post-World War I peace settlement in the East for good (especially without Hitler and the Nazis) would be for a plebiscite to be held in the Polish Corridor in 1919. Of course, this could result in *both* a Polish coastline (the territories...
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    AHC – France sustains its post-Versailles security order for 44 years

    AFAIK, Briand's proto-EU was going to fail since Germany would have likely made any participation on its own part contingent on border revision whereas France and Poland would have likely made the acceptance of existing borders a precondition for entry into this proto-EU.
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    AHC – France sustains its post-Versailles security order for 44 years

    What could help here would be having the US Senate ratify the Security Treaty between the US, Britain, and France in either 1919 or 1920. This would, of course, likely require a different US President--either Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Marshall, or someone else, since Woodrow Wilson was too...
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