Britons got a vivid, close-up description of Adolf Hitler as he appeared to a recent visitornervous as a thwarted cat, biting his fingernails, drinking quantities of sweet champagne. Cedric Salter, Istanbul correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added:
"[Hitler's] sleepwalking manner is greatly accentuated and now gives place only rarely to the old flashes of violent energy. It is disconcerting...
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