Great Britain And1930London Naval Conference

Although the British during the First World War victory, defeating the biggest rivals in Germany, but its strength has been greatly weakened. In the face of America rise, in the Washington Conference, Britain had to recognize the battleship USA with their have the same tonnage. In order to protect the British Empire in the maritime supremacy and lengthy sea lanes, British naval agreement "to build" without limit of vessels, especially the light cruiser. But the huge fleet of British brings more harm than good. After the war the UK economic downturn, at first, the huge fleet maintenance and the seafarer recruitment to a certain extent solved the problem of employment of the British. But in the long term, but greatly intensified Britain’s fiscal burden.Also intensifies the mutual suspicion of Anglo American, or even both sides have launched a new arms race momentum. The British tried to through agreements with France to American pressure, triggered by the results of the American retaliatory policy. In order to solve the dilemma of diplomatic and economic, after Macdonald came to power, the Anglo American relations in a very important position. He resisted pressure of Parliament, began to ease relations with America, and formally in the London Naval Conference with the United States and Japan signed an agreement on limiting the total tonnage of the cruiser.This paper is divided into five part describes the relationship between Britain and the conference, the first part is the background of the London Naval Conference, the International Conference on Disarmament London Naval Conference before the content and the situation after the. The second part is about the diplomatic dilemma faced by Britain, the failure of the Geneva Naval Conference and the Entente took Britain into a very passive diplomatic situation. The three or four part is written to prepare for a meeting with the British in the meeting with other mediation. In the last part, the author thinks that the UK has reached the expected diplomatic objective in the London Naval Conference, and the reasons to explain...