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Show SilLHS FOR HINT ireat Britain, He Says in Commons, Can Take No Chances. By ERNEST MARSHALL (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) LONDON", March 3. "Winston Churchill 1 the house of commons today asked r an appropriation for an army of ,500,000 men. This force would be grad-aliy grad-aliy reduced to Ui.OOO, but he contend-d contend-d that the situation in Kurope and Asia -ay so uncertain that. Great Britain yuld not take the risk of .suddenly we a lining" li-ning" her forys anywhere. It was important that a peace sottlo-lent sottlo-lent should be readied with Germany, nd to do that a strong army of occu-tttion occu-tttion must be kept on the Rhine, he lid. .The speech not one which a dele- 3 ate of a peace conference would have poken, but it in the duty of the war llniator to prepare for war. and h urchill is impressed by the menace of lie immediate future. If Germany does ot ugTee to the terms it will not be pos-ible pos-ible to withdraw the army of occupa-ton. occupa-ton. lie remarked with emphasis: "We are enforcing the blockade, we re holding strong armies in reserve, hero is danger of collapse of the social Structure in Germany under the strain f starvation and malnutrition. " lust Fight Bolshevism. r- -Mr. Churchill pictured Europe as a ' ffiking ship, one bulkhead after another rf:lving way and the whole fruit of science nd civilization in danger of foundering. Jt is very important to . us to bring he ship to land." he said. "Now is the time for action. The mo- nent Germany accepts we must start Q'-nd revictual the country and save it rom the last horror of Bolshevism. A ood army is a -far better weapon to expert pressure than any other. ' Without With-out this power wo have no means of influencing in-fluencing affairs except by starving ev- rybody into Bolshevism." Again and again Mr. Churchill in - lsted, with Increasing emphasis: ""We lust keep a strong army on the Rhine. 1 Tji grain and again I have warned, 'Don't disband your army until you have got our terms.' " Finally he expressed the government policy in a single sentence: Al "We believe in maintenance of a trong army, and the power to be used or common good. It is by far the safest syray, and the surest." parries His Audience. The cheer that followed came from all arts of the house. Though in the co.n-Vions- Churchill carried his audience with im, criticisms of the military policy, 'hich, as secretary of war himself he aid had been forced upon him by events, re numerous outside the house, 'ji, Balfour's predictions of an early preliminary pre-liminary peace arc in some quarters pro-' pro-' ounced uUraoptimistic, considering re-orts re-orts of conditions in Germany. The sit-ation sit-ation is described as a race between iolshevism and the peace conference. |