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General Sikorski, Prime Minister and Polish CommanderinChief, spoke at an impressive ceremony held in the Archbishop McMahon Curley, of Baltimore and Washington. Chancellor of the Catholic University, conferred upon him the honorary de gree of Doctor of Laws.
Prolonged applause greeted Archbishop Curley when, in his address, he saluted the Polish nation and addressed a plea to God to "keep and conserve Poland." Characterising the Nazi attempts to denationalise the Polish people as "the rape of Poland," His Excellency added: "Men may try to crush the bodies of people, but they can never crush their souls. I salute Poland. God keep and conserve Poland. Long live
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The greetings of the University were presented to General Sikorski by the Right Rev. Mgr. Patrick J. McCormick, acting -Rector, and the Rev. Dr. John J. Rolbiecki, of the faculty of philosophy, who extended a welcome in Polish. Among the prominent guests were Lady Halifax, wife of the British Am-
bassador; Vladimir Hurban, Minister of Czecho-Slovakia; Cimon P. Diamantopciulos, Minister of Greece; and attaches of Embassies and Legations of the United Nations. In the course of his address, General Sikorski said: "Allow me to express my gratitude for and appreciation of the high honour bestowed upon me by the It was granted Catholic University. to me as to the representative of a country in which the Roman Catholic Faith is dominant, and whose fidelity In the past to this Faith is great. and in the present Poland has given countless proofs of her devotion to her
whether the world will achieve the realisation of the highest ideals, or be defeated by a primitive barbaric materialism which reduces men to beasts. We are fighting a mortal war which will decide about nations, continents, and the fate of the whole world. Such GENERAL SIRORSKI. is the true nature of this war. "I have frequently heard expresFaith and her readiness to bear the sions of surprise that Poland took up greatest sacrifices in its defence challenge to fight the invader the DocDegree of "I have received the tor of Laws at a time when in my against such overwhelming odds, and country the invader proclaims that that she has never ceased to fight. It right and law are the exclusive privi-appears that it is likewise not clear lege of rulers and of the mighty, and to everybody why the most ruthless the most inhuman methods of that the Poles as an inferior and weak
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It is the Rule of Justice which gives Birth to Freedom . .
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er nation are placed outside the law. In view of this, the honour you have bestowed upon me comes as a tribute to the Polish nation whose intrepid tight in defence of the reign of right and law has entered upon its fourth year. "This war is not an ordinary war for material interests or territorial It does not resemble ambitions. those conflicts of the past, the outcome of which was decided in single battles. On the course of this war depends
extermination are being applied to Poland. "There was never any doubt among the Polish people that when Hitler that challenge challenged Poland would be unhesitatingly taken up. The entire nation knew that this was going to be a decisive conflict between the Reich and the Polish nation. We knew that our Allies would stand by us, that the United States and the other American Republics would lend us their support. But al,ove all other things,
Poland acted as she did in accordance with her traditions of the past, with that philosophy, morality and civilisation which she had represented for generations in the family of civilised naThe Polish nation with all its tions. dynamic qualities could not give up, whatever the odds, or ever contemplate surrender. That nation will never accept the yoke of slavery. "Justice, mercy and honesty were declared by the creators of totalitarianism the weapons of the weak and degraded, for strong people called to rule should not acknowledge ethical or lawful standards," General Sikorski asserted. "Totalitarianism basically denies all moral standards, including Christian morality, the greatest ethical achievement of mankind. "The totalitarian ideology draws its:, inspiration from the German philosophers of the past. German philosophy built up the belief in the superman long before Hitler's time and the German nation secretly believed in the theory of German racial superiority. That nation was systematically prepared by the Prussian school of thought for the theory of national socialism.
"How totally different was the trend
When in the end of Polish thought. of the eighteenth century the Polish nation lost its independent political existence Polish philosophers, statesmen, (Continued on Back Cover.)
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