From an Old Liberal Cold Warrior

Boston, May 7—May Day in Poland must have put the Soviet Politburo into shock. There on TV you could see it, the ultimate heresy: the Communist Party cadres were fraternizing with the workers and peasants.

Instead of a great military parade with Marxist-Leninist jets, tanks, missiles, and disciplined ranks moving before the leaders in their reviewing stand, an undifferentiated rabble of Party functionaries, members, farmers, and Solidarity militants ambled through Warsaw. There was not, as Soviet enforcer Mikhail Suslov must have noted, a picture of Lenin to be seen.