Commission, in regard to the enquiry ordered by the competent authorities for the purpose of hearing all persons who had asked for the establishment of a minority school at Gieraltowice, made the following statement : ' "L'interrogatoire dut faire aux personnes légalement responsables de l'éducation l'impression d'un essai de pression destinée à les faire renoncer à la création d'une école minoritaire, d'autant plus que la minorité est engagée depuis des années dans une lutte permanente avec les autorités sur le terrain de l'école minoritaire. D'après l'article 131, alinéa 2 , il est interdit aux autorités d'exercer une influence, si minime qu'elle soit, en vue du retrait de la demande faite dans le sens de l'article 106; il est donc évident que les autorités compétentes ont violé cet article1." As examples of a partial attitude on the part of the authorities, the German Gover.nment has also cited two special cases, one relating to the attitude adopted by the police of Brzezie in connection with a Christmas festivity arranged by the minority school, and the other concerning the fact that in the commune of Brzezinka, the school authorities had established the minority school at a place situated about three quarters of an hour away from the locality where most of the children entered for the school lived, though premises could have been found in that locality . The Court considers that a generally hostile attitude on the part of the authorities in regard to minority schools, an attitude manifested by more or less arbitrary action, is not compatible with the principle laid down in Article 68. The Court, moreover, has found nothing in the documents and statements submitted in the course of the proceedings which would show that Poland questions, as not well founded, Germany's contention that any measure singling out the Translation by the Regzstry : "The persons legally responsible for the children's education must have received the impression that. the enquiry was an attempt to exert pressure t o induce them t o abandon the request for the creation of a minority school, more especially seeing that the minority has been engaged for years in a continuous struggle with the authorities in regard t o the question of the minority school. Under Article 131, paragraph 2 , the authorities are forbidden t o exercise any pressure, however slight, with a view t o obtaining the withdrawal of requests made under Article 106 ; it is therefore obvious that the competent authorities have contravened this article." . . '