Breathless, red-faced and disheveled, a young Austrian Nazi ducked into a cafe on Vienna's Wiedner Hauptstrasse one morning last week, slipped up to a table and gasped: "Der Linzer Putsch ist futsch!" (a fizzle at Linz). Within a few hours all Europe knew the details of the latest half-cocked attempt of an Austrian Nazi band to seize power, and disgusted German Nazis were again calling their southern brethren stupid sheepsheads.
A favorite home of Ernst Rüdiger Prince von Starhemberg, ousted last fortnight as Austrian Vice Chancellor (TIME, May 25), is his family...
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