The Star goes on to say that "a ducal campaign
for the liberation of languishing Syndicaliets tests our credulity altogether too much." On similar lines is the letter published in Tuesday's Daily Chronicle, in which an English resident is cited as declaring that "to the Portuguese, and especially to those of the criminal class, here they [the prison in Portugal] are quite as comfortable and well provided for as their own homes," attributing this view to the British Ambassador, and condemning the Duchess of Bedford's action as having done more harm than good. This is printed without a word of editorial comment in the Daily Chronicle, whose own repre- sentative, Mr. Philip Gibbs, drew a far blacker picture of the prison scandal and the methods of the Portuguese Govern- ment than the Duchess of Bedford. No one would gather from the Liberal jeers at the Duchess of Bedford that she is an admitted expert on prisons and prison treatment.
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