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