If that were so, and if British security were to depend—as indeed it does—on the security of France, "then it became clear that British resources in snanpower and our great industrial strength demanded that we should produce an army on a scale sufficient ensure our security and be worthy vf our position as a great Power."
Mr. Stanley then referred to the decision taken last year to equip the army on a continental scale, "The B.EF. is in France," he said, "and the wisdom of the decision to send it there is not questioned by anyone. Starting comparatively small, our army is rapidly growing, A great army is in process of formation, with which we shall progress sively take a bigger and bigger part of the burden of the war from the shoulders of our Allies, the French, who in the early days of the war had to bear such a very great part of this burden" (cheers),
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