ABSTRACT
In the period immediately prior to the First World War, Britain and France competed for the contracts for the Greek and Turkish naval programs, and the influence that would come with them. Anglo-French rivalry in Greece was particularly intense. The manner in which the two powers pursued the contracts, as well as the primary motivations which drove both to seek them, mirrors the period between the world wars: influence and economics.1 The short era of British and French cooperation during the First World War is in many respects a political aberration, as both immediately returned to battling one another as soon as the guns stopped.
