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They actually did https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/alltheworldsbattlecruisers/washington-conference-negotiation-minutes-regardin-t8980.html

>The National Archives at Kew, London, has copies of all the minutes of discussions which took place during the 1921 Washington Naval Conference. Of special interest is the discussion that took place around the possibility of Britain being allowed build two G3's as recorded in CAB/30/27/1. I have transcribed the relevant part of this document and post it below for general interest. It starts on page 100 of the aforementioned document and partway through a meeting. The discussion prior to G3 coming on the agenda dealt with the Japanese Mutsu which I didn't transcribe as it is irrelevant to the subject under examination:

>MR. BALFOUR said he was now going to raise a point which he was not sure if Mr. Hughes had in mind, although, he ought to have it in mind. Mr. Hughes proposed to allow Great Britain to continue with her two big super-HOODS if she would sacrifice five ships. He would have to consult his experts as to whether it should be the TIGER or some other ship, but he thought the final result would not be very much affected by this.

>Mr. BALFOUR said he thought that this was a fair statement of the general argument. He thought he would have to discuss the matter again with his experts. He would like to be in a position to say that agreement had been reached subject to the choice between the two alternatives, namely:-

>First alternative:
>Great Britain to build two super-HOODS and to scrap five old ships.

>Second alternative:
>Great Britain to build two 35,000 ton ships and and to scrap four ships, though he could not say whether his experts would agree that four was the proper equivalent.

>Mr. HUGHES agreed that this was the proposition, provided that Baron Kato was in agreement.

>Baron KATO said he had no objection to the alternative proposals.

>MR. BALFOUR said that at any rate the practical point was that he must consult his experts as to the two alternative proposals, which he summed up as follows:-

>Alternative I.
>Great Britain to build two super-HOODS and to scrap four KING GEORGE Vths and one TIGER.

>Alternative II.
>Great Britain to build two 35,000-ton Ships and to scrap four KING GEORGE Vths.

>MR BALFOUR said that he had spent the last hour discussing the question with his experts. They had been satisfied that one of the alternatives to be put up to the Admiralty, was the scheme whereby Great Britain would be permitted to build two super-Hoods and would have to scrap the four King George V’s and one of the battle cruisers, but the British experts wished to be able to decide whether they would scarp the “Tiger” or the “Repulse”. There were certain technical considerations upon which the choice of the ship to be scrapped depended and these required further examination. He was inclined to think it did not make much difference as the “Tiger” was only 2,000 tons larger than “Repulse”. Subject to this, the experts were prepared to accept alternative 1 as one of the plans to be submitted to the Admiralty.


The Super-Hoods that they are talking about are G3s and people present are US Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, Baron Arthur James Balfour Lord President of the Council, and Baron Katō Tomosaburō Minister of the Navy.