LAW AND STATE
VARYING CONCEPTIONS
TOTALITARIAN IDEA
(British. Official Wireless.) (Received March 1, 12.45 p.m.)
RUGBY, February 28,
- The senior Scottish University, St. Andrews, todays conferred on the Polish Premier, General Sikorski, the honorary degree of Doctor of Law. In an address after the ceremony General Sikorski compared the system of law in a free country such as Britain with that appertaining to the totalitarian States. The essential difference between them was ,that in a free community the law was regarded as being above the State and authority, whereas the totalitarian conception was the subservience of law to the all-consuming leviathan of the State.
Speaking of Poland's association with Britain, General Sikorski. said: "The struggle which we today are waging together is not only a struggle for the right of Poles to an independent existence, but also for the right to-,, a Christian civilised world. And' that is the true significance of today's ceremony, which does me so great an honour."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 51, 1 March 1941, Page 10
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