President Hailed By Over A Million In Visit To Berlin ( JUne 26, 1963

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Berlin, June 26-- President Kennedy, inspired by a tumultuous welcome from more than a million of the inhabitants of this isolated and divided city, declared today he was proud to be "a Berliner."

He said his claim to being a Berliner was based on the fact that "all free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin."

In a rousing speech to 150,000 West Berliners crowded before the City Hall, the President said anyone who thought "we can work with the Communists" should come to Berlin.

However, three hours later, in a less emotional setting, he reaffirmed his belief that the great powers that must work together "to preserve the human race."

His earlier rejection of dealing with the Communists was a warning against trying to "ride the tiger" of popular fronts that unite democratic and Communist forces, Mr. Kennedy explained in an interpolation in a prepared speech.

The President's City Hall speech was the emotional high point of a spectacular welcome accorded the President by West Berlin. He saluted the city as the front line and shining example of humanity's struggle for freedom.

Those who profess not to understand the great issues between the free world and the Communist world or who think Communism is the wave of the future should come to Berlin, he said.

In his later speech, at the Free University of Berlin, President Kennedy returned firmly to the theme of his address at American University in Washington June 10 in which he called for an attempt to end the cold war.

"When the possibilities of reconciliation appear, we in the West will make it clear that we are not hostile to any people or system, provided that they choose their own destiny without interfering with the free choice of others," he said.

"There will be wounds to heal and suspicions to be eased on both sides," he added. "The difference in living standards will have to be reduced--by leveling up, not down. Fair and effective agreements to end the arms race must be reached."

The changes might not come tomorrow, but "our efforts for a real settlement must continue," he said.

Then the President introduced an extemporaneous paragraph into his prepared text.

"As I said this morning, I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world," he said. "I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in the necessity of great powers working together to preserve the human race."

Nuances of policy, however, were not the center of attention today in this city of at least 2,200,000 alert people. For them the only matter of importance was to give a heartfelt and spectacular welcome to the United States President and to see a youthful-looking smiling man obviously respond to their warmth.

Pierre Salinger, the President's press secretary, said the reception here was "the greatest he has had anywhere."

Along the route from Tegel airport to the United States mission headquarters in the southwest corner of Berlin, waving, cheering crowds lined every foot of the way.

The crowds must have nearly equaled the population of the city, but many persons waved once and then sped ahead to greet Mr. Kennedy again.

Only once in a jammed eight hours, during which he was almost uninterruptedly on a television screen, did Mr. Kennedy fail to dominate the scene.

Shortly before noon he approached Brandenburg Gate where he caught his first view of the Communist-built wall that partitions Berlin.

The President had been scheduled to gaze over the wall through the gate onto Unter den Linden, once the main avenue of the German capital. However, the five arches of the gate were covered by huge red banners, blocking his view there of East Berlin.

Just across the wall from the podium where the President's party stood was a neatly lettered yellow sign in English. It cited the Allied pledges at the 1945 Yalta conference to uproot Nazism and militarism from Germany and to see it would never again endanger world peace.

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The President appeared not to read the words, busying himself with a map indicating key points along the wall.

At Checkpoint Charlie, the United States-controlled crossing point to East Berlin on the Friedrichstrasse, Mr. Kennedy had an unobstructed view several hundred yards into the eastern sector.

About 300 yards away, well beyond the 100-yard forbidden zone decreed by the Communists last week, he glimpsed a small group of East Berliners attracted by his presence. Though he could not hear them, they cheered.

In West Berlin there was no Communist attempt to embarrass the President. The problem for West Berlin's 13,500-man police force and the President's Secret Service guards was to restrain excited crowds from rushing to the President to shake his hand or hand him gifts.

On his arrival this morning at Tegel airport protocol went wrong when Mr. Kennedy first grasped the hand of Chancellor Adenauer instead of that of Gen. Eduard Toulouse, the French commandant in West Berlin. The airport is in the French sector, and technically under French sovereignty.

Mayor Willy Brandt, greeting the President, said West Berliners did not expect constantly renewed assertions of allied guarantees "because we trust our friends."

The President responded by saying: "The legendary morale and spirit of the people of West Berlin has lit a fire throughout the world. I am glad to come to this city. It reassures us."

At the first six stops on the tour--the modernistic Congress Hall where the West German construction workers union was in convention, Mr. Kennedy told the union delegates a free trade union movement was a guarantee and proof of democracy. He urged West German unions to help newly independent countries establish a strong free union movement.

The Presidential motorcade arrived 15 minutes behind schedule at Sch_erger Rathaus, West Berlin's city hall.

Mr. Kennedy's speech was emotional and the West Berliners responded in like manner. Several times they chanted "Kennedy! Kennedy!"

The only break in the day of speech-making and waving to the crowds was a luncheon in the city hall given by Mayor Brandt.

From there, the President drove to the Free University, endowed in 1948 by the Ford Foundation, where Mr. Kennedy was made an honorary citizen of the university. This is a traditional form of honor, dating from the days when European universities enjoyed autonomous political rights.

The motorcade went next to Clay Alley, named after Gen. Lucius D. Clay, defender of West Berlin during the blockade 15 years ago and who, as a member of the Kennedy party, won especial cheers today. There, the United States community of 15,000 soldiers and diplomats and members of their families greeted the President.

"No beleaguered garrison serves in comparable conditions under conditions so dangerous and with adversaries so numerous," the President told the soldiers.

"Your role is to commit the United States. But you are more than hostages. Your are in a sense a real force, for you represent the will and perseverance of your fellow Americans."

This was the final stop and the motorcade then sped back to the airport, where, after a brief farewell, the President took off for Ireland.

Europeans were dazzled by the chrome and rhinestone Kennedys and gaga over the trashy, psychopathic Clintons, but they could not recognize The Hero when he appeared before them. No wonder Europe's such a mess.

Remember the end of La Dolce Vita when the monster washed ashore and no one knew what it was and the angel called to them but they couldn't understand what she was saying?

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