His friends are more worried than his foes about a seeming irresoluteness on occasion, a remoteness from the events over which he should be exercising command.
To them the idea of settling amicably for something less than their maximum demands still smacks of irresoluteness and a lack of ideological purity.
But the characteristics that men really recognize are neither noble aspirations nor irresoluteness: men see, in fact, their own traits of taint and corruption.