APPENDIX D SPEECH AT RECEPTION IN SINGAPORE The speech was delivered at Belle Vue, the home of Manasseh Meyer, on 2 November and published on 3 November 1922 in The Straits Times. I feel highly pleased at the hearty welcome you, Mr. Manasseh Meyer, and all here, in your mansion, have given to me and to Mrs. Einstein. I have also been greatly touched by the impressive words you have made use of in the address which you have presented to me. On behalf of Mrs. Einstein and myself, I beg to thank you for the kind reception you have given to us. I am agreeably surprised to find here in the Far East such a happy unity amongst our brethren. Concerning your personal remarks addressed to me, they made me feel all the more happy on account of their recognition of intellectual ambitions, which is one of the finest traditions of our race. (Hear, hear.) The flattering terms which you have used regarding my theory should not really have been addressed to me but to all the scientists of the last century and which was the result of the progress of science through the ages. I am glad to say that science is the property of all nations, and is not in any way endangered by international strife, for it always has a healing influence on those people who look beyond the horizon. If science is preeminent through its universal predomination, then one may ask “Why do we need a Jewish University?” Sci- ence is international but its success is based upon institutions which are owned by nations. If, therefore, we wish to promote culture, we have to combine and to organise institutions with our own power and means. We need to do this all the more on account of the present political developments and especially in view of the fact that a large percentage of our own sons are refused admission into the Universities of other nations. (Shame.) Up to now, as individuals, we have helped as much as possible in the interests of culture, and it would be only fair to ourselves if we, now, as a race, add to culture through the medium of our own institution. (Applause.) With this end in view let us work together with all those prominent men who are already devoting all their energy to the fulfillment of this great ideal. Once more I heartily thank you all for the great esteem which you have shown to me.