"Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
Nikos Kazantzakis
Last spring, before he began a three-month tour of Western Europe, Columnist Walter Lippmann, 77, insisted that a new isolationism was sweeping the world, making obsolete the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam. Not surprisingly, on his vacation Lippmann found his judgment confirmed. In the first columns he has written since his return, Lippmann portrayed today's Europeans as a grey, inhibited lot. "They do not have the ambition to participate in history and to shape the future. Their state of mind is marked by a vast indifference to big issues,...
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