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Professor Albert Einstein, self-exiled from Germany, made his first public speech in English as he addressed a vast crowd at Albert Hall, who were meeting to protest against Nazi policy.

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SLATE INFORMATION: 10,000 hear Einstein

ENGLAND: London: Royal Albert Hall:
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Cheering and clapping crowds SOT

Professor Albert Einstein (Scientist, theoretical physicist) speech SOT
- I am glad that you have me, given the opportunity of expressing to you here my deep sense of gratitude as a man, as a good European and as a Jew
- It cannot be my task today to act as judge of the conduct of a nation, which for many years has considered me as your own
- We are concerned not merely with the technical problem of securing and maintaining peace, but also with the important task of education and enlightenment / Without such reason (?) there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Pasteur

CUTAWAY Audience listening around hall

Loud applause from crowd around Albert Hall

Ethnic Minorities; Personalities - Intellectuals; Germany; Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Great Britain
Background: Professor Albert Einstein, self-exiled from Germany, made his first public speech in English as he addressed a vast crowd at Albert Hall, who were meeting to protest against Nazi policy.

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