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as the first World War drew to a close, a new question emerged: whether the wartime alliance against Germany would continue in any form. For a devastated France, bled white in men and money, eyeing her potentially far stronger eastern neighbour, there was no doubt that it must. Once the Versailles Treaty was completed on terms less than satisfactory to France, her policy was dominated by dependence upon a reluctant Britain against Germany. Similarly, Belgium, shattered by the failure of her special Great Power guarantee to prevent invasion in 1914, wished to rest for her security upon both Britain and France against Germany, partly to escape domination by either and partly to placate both Flemish and Walloon sensibilities.
Sally Marks (Mon,) studied this question.