LAW ABOVE STATE
BRITISH PRINCIPLES POLISH LEADER’S EULOGY DICTATORS COMPARED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11 a.m. ‘ RUGBY, Feb. 28. The senior Scottish University of Saint Andrew’s to-day conferred on the Polish Prime Minister, General Sikorski, the honorary degree of doctor of laws. In an address after the ceremony General Sikorski compared the system of law in a free community such as Britain with that appertaining in 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 State.
Speaking of Poland’s association with Britain, General Sikorski said: “The struggle that we to-day are waging together is not only a struggle for the right of the Poles’ independent existence, but also for the right of the Christian civilised world. And that is the true significance of to-day’s ceremony which does me so great an honour.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 5
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