LimConference → tried to control destructive power of offensive weapons

  • produced resolutions to ban bombing of civilian populations + chemical warfare + limit size of artillery + tonnage of tanks

Leaders could not agree on a few matters

  • difficult to get countries to agree on what offensive and defensive weapons were

  • resolutions passed ⇒ not effective in ensuring ⇒ how limitations on weapons would be achieved.

    • Bombing of civilians was to be banned ⇒ all attempts to agree to ban planes capable of bombing were unsuccessful. proposal to ban chemical weapons also unsuccessful

Individual countries ⇒ used conference to raise own problems

  • Italy wanted navy same size as France