Warning that a continued anti-refugee campaign in England may result in a wave of suicides among refugees was voiced today by the Council of Austrians in Great Britain. One refugee in Bristol, the Council said, had already committed suicide because he “could not bear the strain of still another campaign of hatred and suspicion.
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