BRITAIN FAITHFUL

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 9, 5 October 1933, Page 9

BRITAIN FAITHFUL

Traditions of Tolerance and Justice ADDRESS BY EINSTEIN (Rec. October 4, 8.30 p.m.) London, October 8. Professor Einstein addressed a large meeting at the Albert Hall on “Science and Civilisation.” The audience consisted mostly of Jews. Thousands were turned away. Lord Rutherford introduced Professor Einstein as “my old friend and colleague,” whereupon he was wildly applauded. Professor Einstein said: “Britain has remained faithful to her traditions of tolerance and justice which our ancestors’ struggles for intellectual freedom won for us. Civilisation without freedom would lead to a dull life of slavery. The preservation of freedom from the forces threatening to suppress it is essential to save Europe from disaster.”

“We should not worry because we have lived in times of danger,” Professor Einstein added, “as comfortable routine was fatal to national development, and discontent bred hatred and violence.” Lord Rutherford declared that Britain’s duty was to provide a temporary refuge within her universities for distinguished German scholars faced with destitution. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in an impassioned speech, said the world was often shocked by some natural catastrophe. At present it was faced by a catastrophe produced by the selfish passions of man. If middle-aged people were suddenly driven into the street with their children and made hewers of wood and drawers of water for their self-styled superiors, It would be less odious than the actual happenings in Germany recently. Sir William Beveridge announced that a fund of a million sterling was being raised to help the refugees.