The bulletin

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NX 252
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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 63 No. 3266 (16 Sep 1942)
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The Bulletin  

“The Bulletin,”  

VoL 63.—N0. 3266  

Wednesday, September 16, 1942  

Price 6d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

BLENHEIM PALACE.  

the great ducal palaces of England, none drew  

itself more attention during the second World  

War than the noble pile, the gift of the nation to the  

first Duke of Marlborough, in recognition of his  

great victory at Blenheim in 1704 when “he saved  

Europe” and brought to close the war of the Spanish  

Succession, caused by an ambition on the part of the  

French royal house which, it was held, would have  

reduced Europe, or the Western section of it, to the  

position of French Vassalage. The site of the Battle  

of Blenheim was, in the Nazi thrust for world  

dominion, placed again in war’s arena, as the Bavarian  

village lies on the Danube, river fateful in history. The  

building, regarded as the masterpiece of the architect,  

Sir John Vanburgh, and towards the erection of which  

Parliament voted £500,000, stands in park of 2750  

acres which is 12 miles in circuit. The father of the  

hero of Blenheim was Sir Winston Churchill, and  

the present Prime Minister is son of the second son  

of the Bth Duke, hence Blenheim may be regarded  

much in the light of his ancestral home. As to the  

artistic merits of the palace, opinions have everjaesn  

hopelessly at variance. The style is Italo-Corinthian.  

The usual approach is through triumphal arch  

whence is presented striking view of the mansion,  

in front of which stands sculptured column, 130 ft.  

high, surmounted by statue of the duke, whose  

victories and achievements are recorded on tablets  

round the base. The front of the palace is 348 ft. from  

wing to wing. few words as to the magnificent  

interior: The hall, supported by Corinthian pillars, is  

67ft. high, the design of the painting on the ceiling,  

the work of Sir James Thornhill, representing Victory  

crowning the duke. The gallery and bow window  

rooms abound in portraits by the most eminent  

masters, foreign and British; on the tapestry of the  

latter room are figured tfre battles gained by the duke,  

especially that of Blenheim. The saloon, which com-  

municates with the hall, occupies the entire breadth  

of the centre. The lower part is lined with marble,  

and six of its compartments are decorated with pic-  

tures by Le Guerre, depicting the inhabitants of the  

different nations of the world in appropriate costumes.  

On the ceiling is representation by the same artist  

of the victorious duke arrested in his career by Peace  

and Time. Other apartments greatly admired by the  

visitor are the library, theatre, state drawing-room,  

blue-and-green drawing-room, grand cabinet, dining-  

room and dressing-room, description of which,  

including pictures, statues, grand articles of vertue  

and splendid furniture, would require volume. In  

the chapel, forming one of the wings, is fine marble  

monument by Rysbrack to the great duke and his  

almost equally celebrated duchess, Sarah. The gardens  

are wonderful, and the plantations are said to represent  

the positions of the troops on the battlefield of Blen-  

heim. The following appears, with other epitaphs on  

the great Duke of Marlborough, in “A Guide to Blen-  

heim and Woodstock,” published at Oxford in 1757:?  

(From the Latin.)  

“The grateful antients him god declar’d  

Who wisely counsell’d or who bravely wan'd;  

Hence Greece her Mars and Pallas deify’d,  

Made him the hero, her the patriot’s guide;  

Antients, within this urn mortal lies:' —  

Show me his peer among your deities.”  

IWflft  

PURPLE PARA  

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