blood and iron
Americanidiom
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Last week six Western European nations, including the ancient enemies France and Germany who have three times tried blood and iron, gave coal and iron a chance to unite them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire paleotechnic period was ruled . . . by the policy of blood and iron.
From Time Magazine Archive
He loved its sense of pageantry and or der, qualities he attributed to the pervasive military creed of "blood and iron."
From Time Magazine Archive
The latest chapter in the bizarre saga of the Krupp dynasty, whose fortunes were based on blood and iron, unfolded in Germany's Ruhr last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
And how long, he asks, would the country support a policy of blood and iron?
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
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