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If France wasn't going to do this and hold firm to it's 'contain Germany on all sides approach' and go ahead with Locarno.... ...it needed to go all in on the alternative Briand-esque approach of the proto-EU that sillygoose mentioned: ....and if counting on rapprochement with Germany, not...

This does not sound like the French have to give up much. Was their OTL policy (and Italy's) so much obstructionist/opposition to Loyd George's pro-Greek moves as it was, "we didn't sign up for this, we're not involved". If the French just need to say the right things to the Brits and Greeks...

This is a really good point. To keep its security structure intact, France can't sign a pact like OTL Locarno that guarantees the borders of Western Europe but leaves Germany's eastern borders open-ended. France needs to stay firm that the security of Europe is indivisible, east and west...

this brings up the question of France’s advantages and disadvantages compared to Soviet Russia: disadvantage- smaller home territory and population ...but more skilled and educated home population, and a very large colonial territory and population Disadvantage- internal partisan divisions...

So the requirement for this challenge is for France to sustain the security order over western and central Europe it imposed at Versailles 1919, including multiple alliances and ententes it established in the few years after, without a collapse or fatal breach of the system until at least 1963...