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He was greeted earlier that day by the mayor of Berlin, Helmut Mattis, and at his side his wife Edith Mattis. For the first time in her life, Edith paid a visit to Canada last week, arriving to stay with friends in Exeter. Now a resident of Mexico, she had been told many times by friends of the beauty of Canada. Finally convinced, she took up the offer of Zella and Gibby Gibson to stay at their Wellington Street home. Mattis says she can still clearly remember that day in 1963 when the president arrived in Berlin, driving an open car through the streets. His .pregnant wife Jacqueline stayed home in the U.S. "He was very good looking. He looked better than in any photo I saw," she said. The cheering crowds also shared the enthusiasm for the arrival of the American president. "He Idoked at [my daughter] and said 'I wish they were my voters'," laughed Mattis. That was also the day of Kennedy's now -famous speech, in which he said if West Berliners symbolized the fight against slavery and for in- dividual freedoms then "I am a Berliner". Unfortunately, translating that phrase in.* German for the climax of his Edith Mattis, the wife of the former mayor of Berlin, is now an artist living in Mexico. She arrived in Exeter last week to visit with her friend Zella Gibson. Louise's Unique interiors OPENING SOON 436 Main St., Exeter Eno4V< 11 bye, used /VVA►h ANTS 4 ..r Mark Coulthard Ants are not only the traditional nuisance of picnics, but they can also be a com- mon problem on home lawns Ants do not feed directly on the grass plants. 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TOLL-FREE 1-800-387-0342 speech, Kennedy proclaimed "h•h bin ein Berliner".• "Berliner" in German doesn't actually refer to a Berlin resident. "In northern Germany it is a cake...deep fried," said Mattis. "It was so cute, so cute," she added, but notes that Kennedy's sentiments were well -appreciated and understood, at least at the time. She said the immediate post-war period for the besieged city was a daily fight for free- dom. "We could have gone to the other part [East Berlin] and they would have sold us some food. But we didn't go. We would rather starve," said Mat- tis. "They have all forgotten," she added. "Nobody remembers." In the days of the massive Berlin airlift and the fear of Russian invasion, Mattis said West Berliners continually expected to wake up the next day in a completely Communist city. "It would have been easy to take West Berlin," she said. Mattis and her husband accompanied Kennedy on his visit to the famous Brandenburg gate, visible over the Wall in East Berlin. "The Russians put a red curtain in front of it, a huge red curtain," she said. "He just shook his head and smiled. It was so childish, you know." Since the fall of the Wall in 1989, Berlin is no longer a marooned city in a divided country. Mattis returned there shortly after the Wall came down and once again wanted to walk the streets she loved so much as a child. "I wanted to walk through the Brandenburg Gate again, but I couldn't. They were renovating it," she laughed. Missing today from the former Russian sector is the Kaiser's Castle, which wasn't restored, but demolished. after the war's bombings. Had it 1%9 W Ar SU been rebuilt, it would be a huge tourist attraction today. What might have been a landmark is the Russian -built Palace of the Republic, but because of asbestos used in its construction, it is off limits to the public. Although it will still be some years away, Berlin will once again be the capital of Germany, insists Mattis. "They have to...it's so ridiculous, little Bonn: the capital of Germany," she said. Although she admits her husband was not as famous as other post-war West German politicians like Willie Brandt or Konrad Adenauer, Mattis said the fact the eyes of the world were always nervously on Berlin from 1945 right through the '60s made it a centre of attention for many of the oi'ld's leaders and diplomats. ( "We had a very interesting life in Berlin," she said, modestly. Now pursuing her artistic abilities in Mexico, Mattis said she has met a few East Germans pursuing their new-found freedoms. "They travel like crazy," she said. Although some had expected instant riches upon reunification. and were disappointed, others have made full use of their ability to travel and °see parts of the world previously denied them. 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