AUSTRIA: The Problem of the Refugee

In three short months the pretty, blue-eyed servant girl had found friends, a good job, and happiness under Austrian freedom. But last week 19-year-old Smilja Srca was ordered by the Austrian government to return to Yugoslavia. Leaving her mistress a thank-you note in a language the lady could not read, Smilja told the family children goodbye, crept out into the Alpine night and put a bullet through her head. She survived, but the bullet destroyed the optic nerve connections of both eyes, and she will never see again.

Austrians everywhere felt sorry for Smilja—but having accepted a million refugees from Communism...

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