Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-17
PICTURES TO PLAY
CONFERENCE ROLE
Arms Farley Seen as Death
KneII of Finest Navy
in the World.
BY NEGLEY FARSON.

BY Radio to The Star.
LONDON, England, January 17.-Per-
haps the only thing certain about the
naval conference, which King George
will open on Tuesday in the House of
Lords with a speech broadcast to the
world, will be that the opening anthem
will not be Rule Britannia, Britannia
Rules the Waves But not many
thinking decent people will derive much
satisfaction from that fact. The Lon
don conference will probably sound the
death knell Of the finest navy and as
gallant a service of men as this world
has ever seen.
The very royal gallery IN which the
delegates will be seated on Tuesday has
heroic sized painting of the death of
Nelson at Trafalgar-and Nelson is the
name of the present battleship which is
the finest IN the world and can out
shoot, outspeed and Outright any other
battleship afioat. She has sister ship,
the Rodney.
The British have IA other battleships
and battle cruisers faster than any pos
sesSed by the United States. The Brit
ish battle cruiser Hood, Al 900 tons, is
by far the biggest fighting ship afloat.
When the British propose eventually to
abolish this magnificent fleet they will
lingly relinquish one of England's great
est glories; they destroy their Iron
wall"
Nelson's Dying Words.
This they propose to initiate under
the painting of the death of Nelson,
and his historic words at Trafalgar that
day, kiss me, Hardy" will really be
"Kismet," the dying word that Nelson
actually spoke.
Recent history has stamped It's mark
on that historic painting In the House
Of Lords. On the white thigh of one
of the gunners bending over the dying
Nelson is jagged scar, made by q piece
Of shrapnel fired through the House OF
Lords window during the World War
The hole in the window is still pre-
served.
Paintings will play significant
though silent, role in the House OF
Lords on Tuesday One on the left wall
is gigantic pointing the size of base
ball diamond, showing Bluecher greet
ing Wellington after Waterloo. The
French delegates will be seated with
their backs to this picture. It Is no use
making them feel uncomfortable from
the start.
In an adjoining room Is the gallery
Of the wives Of Henry VIII, where
guides when taking gaping tourists
through say on passing Henry's loves
Divorced" "beheaded," divorced, .
"beheaded," survived"
IncOnspicuous Structure.
st. James Palace, where the three
or four months of actual arguments
will take place, Is an inconspicuous
soot-stained,- rambling brick structure
almost lost amid the palatial clubs that
line Pail Mall. Two or three stories
high, its white battlements show like
old bones through the ever-present
London mists.
1t is built on the site Of the ancient
hospital for the fourteen maidens
that were leprous" and was once the
home Of Henry VIII. Until quite re-
Gently it was the residence of the Prince
Of wales It has been the scene Of at
least one previous conference, that for
the Inflated treaty between the Balkans
and Turkey.
1t is the original "Our Court Of st.
James" to which foreign Ambassadors
and Ministers are still officially accred-
tied From It's balcony on Friary court
on the death Of the sovereign will still
come the call THE King Is dead. Long
live the Kingl'
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