Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof was crowded last week with worried tourists struggling for tickets and berths to Paris, Berlin, Prague, Milan—almost anywhere away from Austria. Normally U. S. tourists keep to their spartan schedule of cathedrals, art galleries, shops, with complete disregard of local politics. But since three bloody riots have been staged in the past fortnight by Austria's two pugnacious, irregular armies—the socialist Schutzbund and the reactionary Heim-wehr (TIME, Aug. 19)—and moreover since a third riot resulted in 48 woundings and three deaths, even the...
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