Public arms-race restraint did not end British cruiser planning

Did fear of another cruiser arms race explain why Britain stopped building eight-inch cruisers?

Only partly; the public restraint argument has to be weighed against continued British design studies and contemporary American construction.

An audience comment suggests that fear of another 1920s arms race explains why Britain stopped building eight-inch cruisers. That is treated as an incomplete account because the United States was building the Alaska and Des Moines classes while Britain continued its own cruiser studies. Britain publicly spoke the language of arms-race restraint while the Royal Navy explored materially different possibilities. This does not prove that every paper design would have been built. It does warn against reading diplomatic rhetoric as a complete description of procurement intent.