Washington Conference/Treaty

January 1934 by Hankey and Fisher about the pocket battleships, Chatfield replied that the French (who had laid down the first of two battle-cruisers in 1932) could look after them. He added that Britain s three battle-cruisers could do so too, but ultimately the Royal Navy might not possess any ships of that type as the design of their replacements would depend upon what the Japanese replaced their battlecruisers with. No attempt was made to build larger cruisers to cope with the pocket battleships. Indeed, the Admiralty proposed at the second London naval conference to reduce the maximum size of cruisers, from the 10,000 tons allowed under the Washington treaty to 8,000 tons, to make it possible to build at less cost the number believed to be required to protect British trade. ... 

Although the new League of Nations concluded in 1920 that chemical warfare was no more cruel than any other method of warfare used by combatants, the Limitation of Arms Conference, held in Washington, D. C., in 1922, banned the use of poisonous gases except in retaliation. The United States ratified the limitation, but France declined to ratify the treaty and therefore it was never implemented. 

Fink C (1998) The minorities question at the Paris peace conference the Polish Minority Treaty, June 28, 1919. In Boemeke M (ed) The Treaty of Versailles - a reassessment after 75 years. Cambridge University Press, Washington, pp 249-274 Freeman M (1995) Are there collective human rights Polit Stud 43 25-40 Gilbert G (2005) Individuals, collectivities and rights. In Ghanea N, Xanthaki A (eds) Minorities, peoples, and self-determination - essays in Honour of Patrick Thomberry. Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, pp 139-161... 

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