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How an enlarged 1920s Royal Navy cruiser force would be received

A larger British cruiser inventory would perturb other powers, but capital ships dominated their concerns in the 1920s.

Question

Who would object if Britain entered the early 1920s with a much larger cruiser inventory?

Short answer

Other powers would be perturbed, but no one is singled out as especially unhappy because capital ships dominated naval concerns in the 1920s.

Notes

The hypothetical inventory retains large numbers of E-, D-, C-, and 1910 Town-class cruisers. Other powers would be perturbed by that total, but no particular opponent is singled out as especially unhappy. Capital ships dominated naval concerns in the 1920s, so the extra cruisers would attract less attention than their numbers alone suggest.