An item referred to the magazine Marine Rundschau dated August 1938 reporting that the French cabinet hoped to fix new building terms to realize totally 200.000 tons under the Budget year 1938 2 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 2-8.000 ton cruisers, 6 destroyers, 12 submarines and another 24.000 ton of smaller vessels. Before 31 December 1938 were all ships and vessels to be laid down and to be commissioned before 31 December 1942.
