An audience interpretation connects France's position at Washington with the settlement reached at Versailles. The response agrees and argues that France's large army weakened the reception of demands for more naval power. Other powers could point to its existing land strength. This is an interpretation of bargaining leverage, without a detailed comparison of the treaty provisions.
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French army strength and naval bargaining
France's large army is offered as one reason other powers resisted additional French naval demands.