I think the commandants have made very clear what our view is of the action which has been taken.

I do not regard our effort as one that concerns only Western Europe and only the United States.

Because I regard the relationship between the United States and Western Europe as vital to our security.

Now, it is up to those countries.

I think the management, the successful management, of our monetary policies and our trade policy is essential.

I hope that these Peace Corpsmen of America and the members of the German Development Service will be joined by representatives of dozens of other free countries in a great international effort in the 1960's for peace.

The United States never registered any objections to the treaty.

I think that the relations between the Federal Republic and the United States are fundamental to both of our security.

Our troops are in Western Europe because it meets a very vital need of the United States.

That is why we are not going.

Your fellow citizen, Chancellor Adenauer, has fulfilled these obligations as a citizen of the West in full measure.

In this respect, he is true to the saying that the young student in Cologne would go to Paris to learn about life, to Holland to learn to count, and to Great Britain to become a tradesman.

The problems of the Western world are, in many ways, different than they were 2000 years ago, but our obligations as citizens remain the same-to defend our common heritage from those who would divide and destroy it; to develop and enrich…

They regard it as a privilege to play their part in these great days.

Our unity was forged in a time of danger; it must be maintained in a time of peace.

For Cologne is not only an ancient German city, it is also an ancient European city, a city which, since Roman times, has played a special role in preserving Western culture, and Western religion, and Western civilization.

May I greet you with the old Rhenish saying, 'Koelle Alaaf.'

As a citizen of Boston, which takes pride in being the oldest city in the United States, I find it sobering to come to Cologne where the Romans marched when the Bostonians were in skins.

This city of Bonn is the capital of the free world.

It is in this spirit that I come to Cologne to see the best of the past, and the most promising of the future.

My stay in this country will be all too brief, but in a larger sense the United States is here on this continent to stay.

There are 1 million Americans serving outside the frontiers of the United States.

But I am certain that no one has made that complaint here about the Adenauers in the City of Cologne.

We will keep this free world free until the day comes, as Thomas Jefferson predicted it would, that the disease of liberty, which is catching, spreads throughout the world.

Western Europe is no longer weakened by conflict, but is fast becoming a full partner in prosperity and security.