When I dip into the future, jar as human eye can see, .
I behold a world as selfish, just as selfish as can be. . . .
With this squint-eyed rewrite of Tennyson, rabble-rousing Senator Gerald P. Nye last week keynoted the New Isolationism.
Until last week, Gerald Nye had not harangued a big isolationist audience with a big isolationist speech since the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941, in Pittsburgh, when he sweatily, stubbornly refused for hours to believe that the Japs had really attacked Pearl Harbor.
All the old, familiar America-Firstish faces were there...
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