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Show 150,000 IN ARMY PLEAOFMN House Reduction Termed Attempt to Undermine Splendid Policy WASHINGTON April 19. Declaring Declar-ing that the house reduction In the army appropriation I. ill "i the Ural step toward undermining our splendid military policy'' the American lyeglon, through Hanford MacNider, it-- n ilonal commander, formally put before the senate appropriations committee today an appeal for an army of 150,000 men. The house plan f'.r an army of liu,- 000 men. together with the cut In rrher appropriations means the upsetting upset-ting of the army reorganization a si " 1 520, so that the country again would be left without an adeq.uat preparedness prepared-ness program, the legion head declared. de-clared. "We in?lsi that appropriations sufficient suf-ficient for a continuation of th- development de-velopment of the arm-, of th United states shall be mad.'." suid Mr. MacNider Mac-Nider 'It must continue on a some! (Ij and efficient basis." oo |