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Echoes of the French Protest

A Romanian professor and a French lawyer, having visited Polish prisons, praised them as better than the French ones. The newspaper remarks ironically that the political prisoners here think otherwise.

Echoes of the French Protest

Though very late in the day, defenders of the honour of the Polish prisons have turned up after all, and not only from allied Romania but also from allied France.

The Romanian professor Teodorescu, who was a guest in our Vilnia at the congress of Polish jurists, asserts that he inspected all 4 prisons of Warsaw and Vilnia and nowhere in all of Europe saw anything equal to the Polish prisons for comfort and delicate treatment of prisoners!.. Not one of the political prisoners complained to him, the Herr Professor, about anything!..

The second defender of the Polish prisons, who is at the same time a lawyer of the Paris Court of Appeal, Mr. Garçon, also a member of the Vilnia congress of jurists, and also having inspected the prisons of Warsaw and Vilnia, writes briefly but emphatically that the Polish prisons are better even than the French ones!.. Perhaps Mr. Garçon forgot to add: the French ones in the occupied German territory?..

And what if both gentlemen were given the chance to try the "hospitality of these prisons" on themselves?…

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