An item referred to tidings received from Geneva, Switzerland a day earlier that the naval commission was the first of the technical commission to report to the common commission about the attack weapons issue. The concept of the editors commission was approved in a public meeting approved. Just like some weeks earlier became clear was the commission not able to come with an unanimous answer about the attack value of the different warships. The result was a report filled with conflicting opinions of the several delegations although sometimes ending in the same answer.(1)
Dealing with the topic aircraft carriers stated the USA, Argentina and England that those ships had a mainly defensive purpose. France on the other hand made a difference between the types of aircraft stored on board of carriers. If the aircraft were just used for reconnaissance tasks, then were carriers not offensive. Germany, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian, Spain and Sweden stated that aircraft carriers were at all times offensive and a threat for the civil population. They were later supported in this opinion by Denmark, Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
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1. The must be the World Disarmament Conference also called Geneva Disarmament Conference or the Conference for the Reduction and Limitations of Armaments 1932-1934 as a effort of the League of Nations to prevent a arms race and even an increase of the armed forces. The withdrawal of Germany from the Conference in October 1933 was in fact an end of the effort.
