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Peter and Lars display note from
Attorney General Robert Kennedy
"excusing" the boys from school.
forced two currencies and two ad
ministrations on us. During the
blockade, they tried to starve us
into submission, and when that
failed, they cut off utilities and
streetcar and bus connections be
tween us and the East.
In my job as mayor, I often have
to think twice before making even
the simplest decision. One after
noon, just before the Wall was
built, my aides and I gave long
consideration to the feasibility of
giving polio vaccine to West Berlin
children. Even this seemingly in
nocent matter of public health
could perhaps create a crisis! If
we inoculated our children, would
the Communists accuse us of mak
ing them carriers and of attempt
ing to set off an epidemic in their
sector ?
Parents everywhere have to face
many problems in bringing up
children, but we in Berlin also
have the almost impossible task of
explaining to our children why
things are as they are.
The Wall itself is our most elo
quent teacher. On Aug. 13 last
year, my sons, like a great many
other school children, followed de
velopments at the Wall on tele
vision. Later on, during one of my
inspection tours, I took them to
see the Wall for themselves. It was
shocking even to them, for they
remembered just a few months be
fore at Easter when Rut and I had
freely taken them into the Eastern
sector to visit the museums.
PETER, our "blockade baby," is
very interested in history and
sometimes astonishes us with how
much he knows. Indeed, a friend
asked him one day: "Who knows
history better, you or your fa
ther?" And Peter answered: "Oh,
my father, I guess after 1789!"
While Peter takes after me,
Lars is more like Rut. But he has
his "political" views, too. One day,
while accompanying Peter and his
mother on a hiking expedition
which I had to miss, Lars suddenly
pouted and exclaimed: "Never
again will I have a father who's
mayor of Berlin!"
Lars beats me all the time at my
own favorite boyhood sport. He is
the best trout fisherman in our
family ! I can sit for hours behind
a pole, but he approaches fishing
scientifically, reads books about it,
and in an afternoon can catch a
dozen fish singlehanded.
BUT HAVING an absentee father
makes the boys not always
the best-behaved youngsters. One
evening a couple of years ago,
when the British ambassador was
expected for dinner, Peter had a
spat with the maid. While she was
setting the table, he hid a sock
under one of the dinner napkins.
He thought his mother would dis
cover it there before dinner and
chastise the maid. But Rut didn't!
The evening passed quietly, but
when the British guests left, there
was the sock under one of the
chairs. Discreet as diplomats are,
one of them must have removed it .
from beneath his napkin and put
it under the chair himself! When
we called to apologize, he laughed
uproariously.
Although Berlin is a focal point
of the cold war, to our people it is
as safe as any place in the world.
We know that the West, especially
the United States, is committed to
our defense and our freedom. Ber
lin has had a long love affair with
the American people, and the air
lift and U.S. aid forged a lasting
bond of friendship.
Since the war, and thanks to
American help, we have lifted our
selves from ruin to a point of peak
prosperity. Every Berliner who
wants to work is working. In the
future, we will not only continue
to build homes and industries, but
to expand our educational, cul
tural, and social facilities. We
know that a city which builds be
lieves in its own future!
As Peter says, Berlin has two
faces. It may be a city full of prob
lems, but it also is a city full of
life and the will to survive. I would
like Americans to see this face as
the enduring profile of Berlin.
Family Weekly. October 7, 1962