Walesa worries cloud Poland visit jubilation

From Desmond O'Grady In Rome THE jubilation with which Pope John Paul was greeted by crowds of up to two million in the last days of his Polish tours has become clouded by uncertainty over his last final talks with General Jaruzelski and Lech Walesa.
Speculation was fired by an editorial in last Friday's
L'Osservatore Romano suggesting that Lech Walesa's cause was lost and he would have to bow out of public life. The next day the deputy editor responsible had to resign.
Suggestions that the editorial might reflect the Pope's own views are clearly welcome to the Polish authorities. The Polish media have played up this version of the story.
The only sure conclusion after the resignation of the deputy editor of the Vatican daily on Saturday is that Pope John Paul disapproved of his article.
This is not quite the same thing, however, as affirming that Virgilio Levi's article was inaccurate. It may simply have been considered inopportune. While paying a tribute to Walesa, it said he had to he sacrificed for the "delicate phase of negotiations now in course".
Walesa's reported comments after his meeting with Pope John Paul seem to have confirmed Levi's interpretation. "The important thing in a negotiation," he said, "is not who negotiates but what is dealt with . . Many problems will he resolved without my participation".
However after the appearance of Levi's article, Walesa reportedly said he was not leaving the Solidarity leadership.
Since Solidarity was outlawed by the Jaruzelski regime the Polish Primate, Cardinal Joseph Glemp has reduced churchSolidarity links. Some Polish clergy criticise him for his alleged compromises but perhaps Pope John Paul, "although his style if more dramatic, shares Glemp's approach.
Perhaps Pope John Paul will proclaim Solidarity ideals without backing the organisation which is, beyond church control. That would be a veritable razor's edge for him.
Contrary to newspaper reports, Mgr Levi did not go to Poland with the Pope.
Mgr Levi, 54, is anything but a tyro. After journalistic experience in Como diocese, he was called to L'Osservatore Romano by Paul VI in 1967. For many years he has been considered the shrewdest and most energetic of the Vatican daily's staff. Frustration over not obtaining the editorship
(held by a mediocre layman Valerio Volpini) may have been a factor in his controversial article.
L'Osservatore Romano, which sells approximately • 45,000 copies daily, is not an official publication but carries weight as mouthpiece of the Vatican.
Mgr Levi has been keenly interested in the Polish question. He has close contacts with many Polish bishops. In November 1981 he organised an international congress in Rome on "europe's christian roots" the spiritual unity of the continent from the Urals to She Atlantic is one of Pope John Paul's favourite themes.
Half the participants were Polish, many of them Solidarity leaders. Recently he has established a foundation in New York to continue this work of bringing attention to the christian origins uniting the Europes, two halves.
His article, which caused the first L'Osservatore Romano resignation-dismissal in memory, was not a beginner's mistake but a tactical move by an insider.
Although there is usually consultation with the Vatican Secretariat of state on key articles, Mgr Levi claims it was written on his own responsibility. Did he write it to prevent what he announced, to
foil Vatican-Polish government sacrifice of Walesa?
Mgr Levi said he resigned because of the reaction to his article but did not specify whose reaction.
He is the first Vatican victim of the Polish situation. It points up the difficulty of assessing Pope John Paul's second trip to his homeland. Some Italian papers have decided that when John Paul and Jaruzelski met, Andropov is the winner but it was still too early for a verdict.