Entrance ticket issued to steward at the event at which Albert Einstein delivered his last speech before leaving Europe – the "Professor Einstein Meeting" – at the Royal Albert Hall, London, October 3, 1933. English. The so-called "Professor Einstein Meeting" was held just a few months after the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, and addressed the subjects of academic freedom and the dangers faced by the intelligentsia under the new regime. The participants at the gathering included intellectuals and scientists – such as Nobel laureates Ernest Rutherford and Sir Austen Chamberlain – from all over Europe, and primarily, Albert Einstein, who gave his last speech before leaving Europe: "If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake, and what we owe to that freedom which our ancestors have won for us after hard struggles. Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, and no Lister. There would be no comfortable houses for the mass of people, no railway, no wireless, no protection against epidemics, no cheap books, no culture and no enjoyment of art at all. There would be no machines to relieve the people from the arduous labour needed for the production of the essential necessities of life. Most people would lead a dull life of slavery just as under the ancient despotisms of Asia. It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worthwhile." Approx. 11.5X9 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.