POLITICAL REFUGEE
YOUNG AUSTRIAN TEACHER
FORCED TO LEAVE LAND
A 25-year-old Austrian teacher who was forced to flee from Vienna last December because of his political views arrived at Wellington by the Arawa from London. He has letters of introduction to prominent people in Wellington and hopes to find congenial employment in the Dominion.
The young man lias come to join his brother in. Wellington, but is anxious his mime should not be published because he said harm might come to his mother In Vienna. The teacher said his Socialist leanings had apparently caused someone to inform on him to the secret police, and he had been interrogated. He had managed to satisfy his questioners, but decided rather than to risk a concentration camp to emigrate to New Zealand. He had had considerable difficulty in leaving the country and had had to pretend he merely wanted to visit friends in London.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7
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151POLITICAL REFUGEE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7
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