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-2-380, SEPTEMBER 14, 7 PM FROM BERLIN 
AT PRESS CONFERENCE WHICH KING HAD GIVEN AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 
12, MOST QUESTIONS CONCERNED UPCOMING US ELECTION. KING ATTACKED 
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND SAID IF GOLDWATER WERE ELECTED US 
NEGROES WOULD TURN TO OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE HITERTO UNPRECEDENTED. 
KING SAID GOLDWATER CANDIDACY WAS THREAT TO.STABILITY IN USA 
AND HIS ELECTION WOULD BE GREAT DISILLUSION TO THOSE WHO ARE 
CARRYING OUT NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. 

DR. KING PREACHED SERMON ST BERLIN MARIENKIRCHE SUNDAY EVENING 
SEPTE!1BER 13. CHURCH F'ILL D Trr CAPACITY (2000) TWO HOURS BEFORE 
SERV IC· EGAN. OVER:FL01v SENT TO NEARBY SOPHIENKIRCHE WHICH ALSO 

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$00 1 E COVER 2000) KING GREETED WARMLY UPON 
A . IVAL BY R WDS OUTSIDE MARIENKIRCHE. CHOIR INSIDE SANG NEGRO 
SPIRITUALS IN HIS HONOR. 

KI G BEGAN SERMON BY CONVEYING "CHRISTIAN GREETINGS FROM YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN WEST BERLIN." SEVERAL PEOPLE IN CONGREATION SOBBED OPENLY. KING DELIVERED ESSENTIALLY SAME -SERMON AS HE HAD GIVEN EARLIER IN 1E~. BERLIN. HIS THEMES -THAT "WE ARE ALL ONE 
. I CHRIST J"~sus" AND THAT FAITH OVERCOMES .LL MAN-MADE BARRIES -HAD VISIBLE IMPACT ON TENSE, HUSHED CROWD. . 
KING OUTLINED NEGROES• STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN SUCH A UAY THAT EAST BERLINERS COULD FIND IN HIS DESCRIPTION_ MUCH THAT WAS APPLICABLE TO THEIR OWN SITUATION. HIS PASAGES ON THE READINESS OF NEGROES TO SUFFER AND IF NECESSARY DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AND HIS EMPHASIS ON COMMON STRUGGLES, COMMON FAITH AND COMMON SUFFERING WRE .PARTICULARLY MOVING TO THEM. . 
IN EAST BERLIN KING DELETED FROM HIS SERMON SEVERAL HARD-HITTING 
ATTACKS ON AUTOMATION, BIG CITY POLITICAL BOSSES, A ND POLICE 
BRUTALITY THAT HE HAD INCLUDED IN HIS WEST BERLIN SERMON • 
.. L~EUES DEUTSCHALND" SEPTEMBER 14, IN TWO SENTENCE COVERAGE OF 
EVENT, DID, HOWEVER, SEIZE ON KING'S SINGLE REFERENCE TO "SLUMS, 
POLICE TERROR, AND EXPLOITATION ON SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS." 

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