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...Impotence-that is the flaw of our men of power . . . The statesman worthy of the name is the one who can make his own designs prevail over the passions of a Parliament, as he would be able, were he dictator and absolute master, to reduce to silence his own passions. Such is the gift of persuasion and of leadership which has been bestowed on none of our weak rulers...
Agents Inside. The plan was worthy of the Moscow-trained coup d'état experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...
Covetous Designs? Riegelman's visit to the State Department highlighted an old flaw in U.S. foreign policy: any attempt to work out decisions for the critically strategic Middle East automatically becomes a hot issue of domestic politics. The Truman Administration zigzagged between the pleas of Pentagon strategists for the conciliation of Arab nations and the domestic pressures for strong support of Israel. When the chips were down, Harry Truman always yielded to political pressure. Generally, Eisenhower and Dulles have worked more consistently to restore Arab confidence...
...major flaw in the Crimsons's performance--and it was a glaring, disturbing flaw--was its pass defense. Colgate receivers consistently outran the Crimson secondary; they hauled in a dozen of Dick Lalla's 22 passes for a total of 178 yards...
...novel proves that British films can overstate their famous technique of understatement. Depicting five years of war on board a British corvette escorting conveys, the Cruel Sea dampens even highly dramatic episodes with a monotonous restraint that rarely varies the emotional pitch of the film. Only in the flaw less performance of Jack Hawkins as the captain of an inexperienced crew is there a gauge of the intensity of each experience. In spite of Hawkins, the two hour film often seems as endless as the ocean which hides the subs the corvette seeks...