# Echoes of the protest of French public figures

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/echoes-of-the-protest-of-french-public-figures/
- Published: 1924-05-22T19:45:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T19:51:29+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/vodhuki-pratestu-francuzskich-dziejachou.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/otkliki-na-protyest-frantsuzskikh-dyeyatyelyey.md

> The Sejm commission has at last taken up prison conditions, but its head Tugutt has already sent assurances to Paris that the protest is untrue. In doing so, the paper writes, he distorts the facts about the composition of the commission.

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The Sejm commission for familiarizing itself with prison conditions has at last begun its work on 15 May. Evidently the appeal of the French public figures had its effect…

It is interesting that Deputy Tugutt, a member of the Sejm's administrative commission and almost its chairman, the leader of „Wyzwolenie“, has, as we are informed from Warsaw, already telegraphed to Paris to Mr. Herriot that everything written in the appeal is untrue. He did so not only without any result of an investigation, but even before the commission had begun its work of inquiry. In refuting their arguments, Mr. Tugutt deliberately falsifies the facts, for in his letter to Mr. Herriot he states that in the commission of experts on questions of national minorities and on the improvement of conditions in the „Eastern Borderlands“ ('Kresy Wschodnie') one Belarusian and one Jew are supposedly working, whereas in reality not a single representative of the national minorities has been invited to the said commission, and the representatives of the national minorities mentioned work only in the Sejm's administrative commission.

Deputy Tugutt is passing his examination for Minister of the Interior well…