A third difference is that the political preconditions for a cooperative response are better today. In 1931, France refused to help stem the Central European financial crisis because it believed that Germany was rearming, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, signed at the end of World War I. Political tensions between France and Germany may very well grow in the coming months and years, following François Hollande’s victory in the French presidential election, but they will not begin to rise to that level.
第三个不同点是如今合作应对的政治条件要好于当初。1931年，法国拒绝帮助阻止中欧金融危机，因为它认为德国正在重建武装力量，违反了一战后签署的凡尔赛和约。奥朗德在法国总统大选中胜出后，法德之间的政治冲突可能会在未来数月到数年时间里逐渐激烈，但不会严重到当年的程度。