Cuba: Socialist, Yes; Elections, No

From Moscow for May Day came an appropriate laurel for Fidel Castro—a Lenin Peace Prize and $27,750 for his "tremendous contribution to the cause of strengthening the peace and the security of nations." As 500,000 arm-swinging Cubans marched through Havana's Plaza Civica last week, the bearded dictator made clear his contribution to the cause of Communism, if not of peace. Proclaimed Castro: "This is a socialist regime. Yes, this is a socialist regime"—and he seemed to mean not just a welfare state, but socialist in the way Communist states describe themselves, an...