Build Dutch battlecruisers in British yards

Dutch yards had not built a ship of the proposed 30,000-ton scale, and beginning one at home in January 1939 would not deliver it in time. The Netherlands and neighboring Belgium had repeatedly been overrun in European wars, making domestic construction vulnerable to the very conflict the ships were meant to survive. Ordering them abroad would turn an allied shipyard into industrial and geographic strategic depth. Britain is favored over Germany or the United States because it is the most likely European ally and might have capacity to build all three ships concurrently.