THE NATIONS: Positions for May Day

Britain's David Low last week depicted the Man in the Kremlin looking smugly down from his citadel, watching how the outside world continued building an image of him as an infallible octopus. As usual, Low had a good point. The Man in the Kremlin, looking westward into capitalist paganry, had some things to worry about himself.

Sweetness & Light. Western Europe had vastly strengthened its defenses against Communism, was even taking some practical first steps toward federation. This

May Day, Marxism's annual spring rites would seem slightly out of place in Paris, where the Communists were in lonesome and (temporarily) confused...

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