Anglo-French Security Treaty

… From France's point of view, these were all major concessions, and in order to get Clemenceau to make such concessions, America and Britain needed to show some concrete measures to appease his fear of Germany, which was the basis of his thinking, rather than just opposing him. So America and Britain each promised to conclude a security treaty with France, and at the same time as the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the US-France Security Treaty and the Anglo-French Security Treaty were also signed. However, these two treaties were such that if one was not ratified, the other would also lose its effect, and the US Senate refused to ratify the US-France Treaty as well as the Treaty of Versailles, so the Anglo-French Treaty also ended up not coming into effect. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the Anglo-French Security Treaty is listed below.

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…　フランスにしてみれば，これらはいずれも大きな譲歩であり，クレマンソーにこのような譲歩をさせるためには，アメリカ，イギリスも，ただ彼に反対するだけでなく，彼の発想の根底にあるドイツへの恐怖心をなだめるために，何らかの具体策を示す必要があった。そこで，アメリカ，イギリスはそれぞれ，フランスと安全保障条約を結ぶことを約束し，ベルサイユ条約調印と同時に，米仏安全保障条約ならびに英仏安全保障条約の調印が行われた。ところが，この2条約は，一方が批准されなければ他方も効力を失うことになっており，アメリカ上院がベルサイユ条約と並んで米仏条約の批准をも拒否したため，英仏条約も発効せずに終わった。…

※「英仏安全保障条約」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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