Speech #870018462

Recent expressions by trade unions. Lutheran Church. German war invalids. and widespread solid reaction to antiSemitic incidents December 1959. as well as many positive. new units as societies of Christians and Jews and rewriting all curricula for youth. are healthy barometers and as welcome mats in one. not only for German "refugees" from the East. but Jewish "returnees" from the West. As a Jewish judge in Cologne explained it: "We have no children. We knew no other home. We were tendered this unusual invitation to serve as judge in a high court and also to help our own people help themselves." 4. Since Jerusalem and Berlin were the highpoints of this exciting itinerary turned pilgrimage. because of these two cities primarily. we find that these two great cities. though deeply different. do indeed have much common ground (as we observed in our response at the luncheon by the Senate of Berlin): (a) Jerusalem faces the East while New Jerusalem faces the Westso with Berlin. (b) Old Jerusalem faces the East while New Jerusalem faces the Westso with Berlin. (c) Jerusalem is almost surrounded by enemy territoryso is Berlin. completely so. (d) Jerusalem lost its Hebrew University atop Mount Scopus. and is in process of completing a new Hebrew University in the Kiryah area of the Westso Berlin lost its university (now renamed Humboldt in East Berlin) and is in process of completing its Free University in West Berlin. (e) Jerusalem is continuously welcoming refugees from many lands of the world during the last 15 yearsso Berlin is welcoming refugees from many lands of the east during the last 15 years. (f) Jerusalem has been sustained in great measure by a helping hand and understanding heart from Americaso has Berlin. (g) Jerusalem has its Mandelbaum Gate that makes it a city divided and keeps it an outpost of freedomso Berlin has its Brandenburg Gate. is a city divided and an outpost of freedom. (h) In Jerusalem. in Hebrew University. is a great fragment of immortality called the "theory of relativity". in Berlin is the Wilhelm Institute where its author. Dr. Albert Einstein may first have written his theory while serving as its director.