The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-17
NAVAL FARLEY
DELEGATES ON
english SOIL
StimSon, Macdonald Confer
at Once on Arrival in
London.
CEREMONY IS LACKING
informally Decided Upon
as Compatible With
Aims of Session.
CEREMONY IS LACKING
BY United Press

By United Press
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Amer
lean delegation to the flve-power
conference for limitation of naval
ornaments was welcomed here to-
day on one of the most important
peace missions since the war.
With "high hopes for success"
the Americans. headed by Secre-
tary Of State Henry L. Stimson, ar
rived at PIP p. m. An absence of
pomp and ceremony marked the
arrival.
Arthur Henderson. the foreign
secretary. Albert v. Alexander, first
lord Of the admiralty, Mrs. Alexan-
der, Sir Robert c. Vansittart, pri-
vate secretary to the prime minister,
and Malcolm Macdonald. represent
ing his father. the prime minister,
officially welcomed the American
delegates at Paddington station.
Stimson visited Prime Minister
Macdonald this afternoon and King
George vii receive the naval confer
ence delegates Monday afternoon at
Buckingham palace.
Immediately after the arrival of
the delegation, Secretary Stimson
went to No. 10 Downing street,
where he was greeted by the prime
minister. They conferred on the
program for the conference.
No Guard of Honor
There was no guard of honor at
the station but the police guard had
been strengthened to hold back the
crowds. The absence of ceremony
at the station was explained by an
official spokesman as in keeping
with the program for the entire
conference, indicating that ceremo-
NAL and formality will be reduced
to a minimum to facilitate work of
the delegates
Britannia valves the rules" the
spokesman added with a smile.
Mrs. Dawes, wife of the American
ambassador, who had met the
delegates at Plymouth. Mrs. Ray
Anterior. wife of the embassy
counsellor, who also went to Ply
mouth, and other members of
embassy including Raymond Cox, R.
L. Buell., and David Key, were
present.
Stimson'S meeting with Mac
Donald was for the purpose of dis
cussing the conference program. 1t
was expected they would decide
whether the French desire to relate
the conference closely with the dis
armament work of the League Of
Nations would be the first issue be-
fore the delegates.
Other issues which were conSid-
cred likely to replace the French
proposal as first on the program
included discussion of battleships,
which the British will suggest be
abolished or reduced in size, and
the Mediterranean situation. where
Italy. France and Britain have vital
interests.
Crowd at Station
Many newspaper men and pho
tographers surrounded the delegates
at Paddington station.
The delegates chatted with the re-
ception committee before walking
up the platform to pose before
great battery of, cameras.
Many of the spectators were rail-
road workers and one with a cock
ney accent remarked to a compan-
ion:
rs all them Yankees, mate?"
AYE. Bill" was the reply, 'them's
the diSarming blokes."
En- route from Plymouth to Lon
don, the American delegates held
what appeared to be an important
conference in the salon of the spe-
cial train. ordinarily used by the
royal family.
Facing each other across the table
OF the salon car, the delegates en-
tered ct once into conversation with
Ambassador Dawes. 1t was under
stood they discussed at length the
complications raised by MacDonald'S
suggestion for ultimate abolition of
battleShipS, which the United States
was expected to oppose. 1t also was
understood that the Americans were
most heSitant about the prime min
ister's suggestion for reduction of
the size of battleShips.