When former King Carol of Rumania visited him at Obersalzburg, Adolf Hitler drank a cultivated tea with his guest, and spoke comparatively little — for the simple reason that Bong Carol answered all of Hitler’s high-flown statements with surprising cleverness. When King Carol had left, as the royal automobile drove down the long winding road of Obersalzburg, Hitler looked after the departing guest, rubbed his hands together in pleasure and astonishment, and said to his attendants: “There goes a very clever rascal.”
