○  在柏林墙边的演说 Ich bin ein Berliner I am a Berliner‘  ○

　　(I appreciate my interpreter translating my German.)

　　There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　There are some who say -- There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the Communists.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress.

　　Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen.

　　Let them come to Berlin.

　　Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in -- to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say on behalf of my countrymen who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride, that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope, and the determination of the city of West Berlin.

　　While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system -- for all the world to see -- we take no satisfaction in it; for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.

　　What is -- What is true of this city is true of Germany: Real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In

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