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Cats enthrall Heroine Irene Dubrovna (Simone Simon). When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone...
...equal States modeled after Switzerland. The impoverished peasants of Yugoslavia-Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Hungarians, Christians and Moslems-have shown an increasing preference for the Partisans. They have deserted Mihailovich, who works for a greater Serbia, the Fascist Ustachi, who want a greater Croatia, and the Serbian collaborationists under the quisling General Milan Neditch...
...wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged it after the Emperor signed...
...York Stock Exchange traders grabbed for Polish, Serbian, Czech and Danish bonds as if the reconstruction had already begun. In London the trend was even more pronounced: for ?100-par Polish 4½s the price hit 28 (almost six times their wartime low), Greek 7s went to 27 (up from a low of 8), Danish 45 to 51 (from 20). And on the day after the African invasion the Amsterdam bourse had such a flood of hopeful buying (e.g. Royal Dutch 1,000-florin par went to 361, up 100 points from the month before) that the Nazis stepped...
Said Anthony Eden, the entire Balkans would burst into revolt "at the appointed hour." In Sofia cellars and in Serbian mountain passes many wondered who would appoint the hour, and when it would come...