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Japan, fed up with six years of bowing before the occupiers, was also sensitive. The Japanese public applauded the sentence. The newspaper Yomiuri warned: "We hope the Japanese government, whose weak-kneed diplomacy was criticized in connection with the U.S. . . . agreement, will retain to the last their firm stand in the U.N. forces agreement...
Another CRIMSON editor, David L. Halberstam '55, claimed that he had been kneed in the groin by one policeman after that officer had failed to catch a photographer he had been chasing...
Moravia's new novel unravels the character of a Fascist-a weak-kneed fellow named Marcello whose troubles all seem to stem from a cruel streak and a wish to be "normal," to be like everybody else or maybe a little more so. The Conformist is not Moravia's best novel, but it is his most ambitious. Underlying it is the question that many an Italian asks himself: How could seemingly decent people have turned into Fascist bullies...
...nation and freedom-loving countries of the world can thank Warren Austin for what remains of the hollow mockery of a weak-kneed "world police force," known to us as the U.N., which cannot clearly define the word "aggressor" for fear of irritating a big bully...
...situation of strength. The passivists stood back and admired it, a monument of American generosity, and made no effective political use of it. U.S. policy in France has failed and is still failing to get what the U.S. wants - a France that can and will defend itself. A weak-kneed French government is the obstacle. Weak-kneed U.S. policy actually supports that government...