After being humiliated one after another by the representatives of Britain, France, and Australia, the Islanders had completely lost their say in the conference.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the Islanders at the conference were reduced to a laughing stock. Apart from hiding in the shadows and breathing by themselves, they could not do anything, nor did they dare to.
At this point, the Islander representative's inner turmoil was intense. On the one hand, they resented and hated the indifference of the Americans, on the other hand, they feared the reaction from their domestic audience. After all, the Island Nation held high expectations for the development of its navy; the famous Plan 88 had already proven the government's absolute priority for its navy.
If their ultimate outcome was a relatively lower limit on naval size, it would be a heavy blow to the Island Government, and the fate of the Islander representative responsible for this result was uncertain.
