The main and salient feature of this conference, was that the tonnage ratio between the United States Navy, Royal navy, and Imperial Japanese Navy would be 5:5:3. Why so? It is mentioned, that the United States and Great Britain, were looking at each other as potential military rivals, with the rise of the United States as a rival to Great Britain, in merchant shipping. What this may suggest, is that other nations were also using the merchant shipping of these powers, perhaps, and hence, the differences, apart from the fact that the two nations were also engaging in the import and export of raw and finished materials and goods, for national purposes. Now, Japan was not a nation, which had a merchant fleet that was seen as important, if she had any merchant fleet at all. The Imperial Japanese Navy was built, because of the defense of Japan. The U. S. and Great Britain, perhaps thought, that they would have no personal reasons, to engage the Imperial Japanese Navy, on their part. I feel, that the United States was pondering keeping more naval ships in the Atlantic, than in the Pacific. I cannot really say, what the British intent was. The great blow, in the relations between the three naval powers was, when Great Britain, made redundant, the treaty she had with Japan, perhaps in part to ally the concerns of the U. S. A. The misunderstanding might have been on the part of the Japanese, who saw a tacit understanding between the U. S. A. and Great Britain, deliberately against Japan's interests. If these issues had been discussed, I cannot say, during the next naval conference of, I believe, 1930, at Great Britain.
Perhaps, Great Britain and the U. S., did not think, that they would fight Japan on the sea's together, if at all. But, what was the combined strength of the Royal navy, and the U. S. Navy, in the Pacific Ocean, and what did Japan think about the future, about this?
Perhaps, Great Britain and the U. S., did not think, that they would fight Japan on the sea's together, if at all. But, what was the combined strength of the Royal navy, and the U. S. Navy, in the Pacific Ocean, and what did Japan think about the future, about this?
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