Washington 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. ... 

Armoured ships, popularly known as pocket battleships, each with a tonnage of about one-third of the maximum for a capital ship under the Washington Treaty. 

The most important of these iprs conventions include the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1967) the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1971) the Rome Convention (1961) and the Washington Treaty on ip in Respect of Integrated Circuits (1989). UPOV, initiated by a group of western European countries, is based on the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants signed in Paris in 1961. 

The 1922 Washington Treaty in relation to the use of submarines and noxious gases in warfare was signed on 6 February 1922between theUSA, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan. Article 5 of this treaty stated that ... 

Yet despite its widespread development and use in the years following the First World War, gas warfare was still technically illegal. The Allied Powers described it as a prohibited form of warfare at Versailles in 1919 and banned the importation and manufacture of poison gas in Germany for all time. Three years later, the Washington Treaty went even further the civilised Powers decreed that the banning of chemical warfare should be universally accepted as part of international law binding alike to the conscience and practice of nations . 

Hansard, HC Debate, vol. 152 C984W, Asphyxiating Gas (Washington Treaty), 27 March 1922. 

These synthetic ingredients appeared as a consequence of the high demand for perfumes in the 20th century, which made their cost increase while the availability of some of them decreased. For example, musk and ambergris are very difficult to obtain as a result of the Washington Treaty that bans international trade in protected species of wild animals and plants (Mitsui, 1998). 

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