Soviet Union wanted to have larger tonnage for building battleships according to the Dutch newspaper De Indische courant dated 23 February 1924

An item dated Nauen, 21th reported that members of the Soviet cabinet at the International Naval Conference at Rome tried to persuade the other delegations that the Soviet Union was allowed to have a 400.000 tons tonnage of battleships, while the conference wanted to limit that tonnage to 110.000 tons.(1)

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1. The Rome Naval Conference on 14 February under the supervision of the League of Nations attended by Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Soviet Union and Sweden.