Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-01

Hard as all of them are working at
the Naval Conference, no member of
the American delegation finds the Lon
don pace much different from the one
to which he's accustomed at Washing
ton. There are more frills to the bust
ness now in hand and vastly larger
amount of sartorial dog" is called for,
but except for the frequency with which
men like Joe Robinson and Dave Reed
have to climb into morning coats and
top hats, they're living about the same
kind of life they do at home. The in
cessant private conversations and min
iature conferences in which delegates
have their daily and nightly being are
the same sort of thing that goes on at
Washington. especially on Capitol Hill.
Uncle Sans spokesman have made an
excellent impression on their British,
French. italian and japanese colleagues.
Probably the complete lack of that ag-
gressiveness with which the outside
world largely associates America and
Americans is the characteristic which
the European and Asiatic delegations
have found the most surprising and the
most agreeable arrow in the Slim
sonians' culver.
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American old-timers in London, like
this observer, discern as one of the
ultra modern developments over here
the omnipresence of the gay and festive
cocktail. Time was, and not very long
ago, when that seductive quaff was
looked upon as a purely American i'm
portation, to be INDUCED in only by
Yankee tourists and eccentric English
men. Today the cocktail is everywhere
in London. Britishers who used to in
Nyito 70 of n0tiNn
you to cocktails at 6, either at their
clubs. their homes or their favorite
West End bars. Mrs. Alfred Clark, the
English wife of the American managing
director of the British Victor Talking
Machine Co., recently addressed letter
to the Daily Mail, commenting on the
origin of the cocktail She revealed that
it is English, and not American, by an
cestry, and was a famous appetizer at
British regimental messes more than a
hundred years ago, under its present
world~renowned title.
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IondonerS are still talking about our
trig departmental "typiSts" from Wash
ington. One of them, Miss Hurley Fisk
of the news division of the State De-
partment, has just made the front
pages of the tabloids with her fetching
riding costume. Miss Fisk, a tall. Venus
like, corn-fed beauty from Iowa, Is an
accomplished horsewoman. She cut so
dashing a figure in Rotten Row one
recent Sunday morning that the news
cameramen insisted on shooting" her
in half a dozen different equestrian
poses. Hurley says TO have ridden in
1.-The Row" at church parade realizes
her life ambition.
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Philip Snowden, chancellor of the
exchequer-John Bulls Secretary Mel
lon--haS a cynical humor, the lash OF
which many a political foe in the House
of Commons invites to his undoing. In
a political speech at Leeds recently Mr..
Snowden, decrying the treasury's dis
appointment that estate taxes death
duties) had failed to approach the de-
partment's estimates during the fiscal
year now ending, remarked, THE fact
is. people have not been dying up to
expectations" The words had hardly
been printed in the papers when the
treasury received one of the biggest
Windfalls in cotemporary times. A total
of no less than $12,500.000 came its
way in one week as the result OF the
probating of only four wills. One
estate, that of Lord Forteviot, probated
at $22 100000. had to fork over $8,-
100000 in death duties Another for
tune, probated at $8,500,O 900. had to
hand S3,250,000 to Mr.. Snowden. It
costs money to die rich in England
nowadays.
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Not only Is Britannia to surrender
the supremacy of the sea at Columbia's
imperious demand in the London Naval
Conference, but the British Navy is
about to capitulate to still another
Yankee contraption The admiralty an
nounces that all battleships in the
Mediterranean are to be equipped with
ice cream machines. Each new cruiser
henceforward commissioned will also