Aube's intervention amounted to political grandstanding in this interpretation because construction stopped without eliminating the battleship programme outright. The pause interrupted work while leaving the future of the programme unresolved. The surviving record is messy enough that some projects may have been cancelled, but it does not show a clean, comprehensive cancellation. Distinguishing a pause from cancellation matters when assessing what his policy actually achieved.
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Aube's battleship halt as political theatre
Aube halted battleship construction without cleanly ending the programme, disrupting work while leaving an uncertain record of which projects were actually cancelled.