DECISIVE CALAMITY
PRUSSIAN BLOOD AND IRON. The defeat of German liberalism in the middle of last century was perhaps the decisive calamity for the Gormans and for Europe, writes "Scrutator” in the Sunday .Times. The German community comprised a mass of smaller units and two Great Powers, each of which was largely non-German. Had the Frankfort Parliament (1849) succeeded. the less heterogeneous of the two. Prussia, would have been absorbed in the mass and Germanised. What happened under Bismarck 20 years later was that the mass was absorbed and Prussianised. The monarchy of blood and iron achieved German unity by its traditional methods, and in so doing made blood and iron not merely a Prussian but a Gorman tradition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1941, Page 6
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