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Hello everyone and welcome to another set of older member episodes that are being released here on the main episode feed.

This series of episodes covers the Interwar Royal Navy, which seemed appropriate as the podcast is about to start its episodes on the Battle of Britain.

In fact, that's what I'm working on right now, which is why you're hearing this.

There will be six episodes in total

released over the next six weeks as I get this next series on the Battle of Britain

kind of sorted out, prepared, and ready for release. Thank you for your patience, and here's

the episode. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War,

Members Episode 13, The Royal Navy Part 3, the end of the naval treaties.

Last episode, we discussed some of the problems faced by the Royal Navy in the early and mid-1930s,

as the threats that they faced in

Europe continued to grow. The entire treaty structure was built around the fact that the British

did not have to greatly worry about what was happening in Europe during the 1920s, but this

would decisively change during the 1930s. This made the British far less likely to support

just a straight continuation of the agreements made,

both in 1921 and 1930, with even the 553 ratio, which had taken so much time and effort to get to,

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