Includes papers of the committee set up to review naval construction in the light of the Geneva conference on the reduction and limitation of armaments including: memoranda by WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the 1927-1928 cruiser programmes and cruiser strengths; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the cruiser programmes, replacement of destroyers and sloops, prices for armour and the naval programme; tables forecasting and comparing the cruiser strengths of the British empire, Japan and the United States in 1930, 1931 and 1932; and the committee report on cruisers.