THE VALUE OF FREEDOM

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20978, 5 October 1933, Page 9

THE VALUE OF FREEDOM

Dr. Einstein Speaks in London DANGER OP FORCES AT WORK IN EUROPE (UKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received October 4, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 3. Dr. Albert Einstein addressed a huge meeting in the Albert Hall on "Science and Civilisation." The audience consisted mainly of Jews, and thousands were turned away. The meeting was held in the interests of refugees from Germany. Lord Rutherford, who introduced Dr. Einstein as "My old friend and colleague," was wildly applauded. Dr. Einstein declared that Great Britain remained faithful to the traditions of tolerance and justice which our ancestors' struggles for intellectual freedom had won for us.

Civilisation without freedom would lead to a dull life and slavery, forces were threatening to suppress freedom. It was essential to save Europe from disaster. Dr. Einstein added that people should not worry oecause tney lived in times of danger. Comtortable routine was fatal to national development, and discontent bred hatred and violence. Lord Rutherford declared that it was Britain's duty to provide temporary refuge within tne universities for distinguished German scholars faced with destitution. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in an impassioned speech, said that the world was often shocked by some natural catastrophe, but at present it was faced with a catastrophe produced by the selfish passions* of man. If middle-aged people were suddenly driven into the street and their children made hewers of wood and drawers of water for their selfstyled superiors, it would be less odious than the actual happenings in Germany recently. Sir William Beveridge announced that a fund of £1,000,000 was being raised to help refugees from Germany.