Second Conference
The London conference of January 21 to April 22, 1930 was concerned with the agreements reached in Washington in 1922 that resulted in the Washington Naval Treaty. The UK, the USA, France, Italy and Japan attended. The major change was in battleship tonnage, altering the ratio between Britain, the US and Japan from 5:5:3 to 10:10:7, France and Italy excluded themselves from the new ratio agreement. All five agreed to a five-year halt on capital ship construction, tighter controls on submarine warfare, and the continuation of limits on aircraft carriers signed in the Washington Naval Treaty. The next meeting was planned for 1935, with preliminary bi-lateral negotiations continuing through 1934.
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