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"The story of the sacrifice made for freedom in the American Revolution is that of a civil war between two groups of English; one group the Americans, being merely Englishmen who settled on the American Continent. The government which Canada and Australia now enjoy was absolutely denied to America through stubborn and false ideas of the autocratic powers guiding the hand of King George the Third. The trouble began England taxed her American colonies to help defray of the French and Indian Wars. The Colonies, not represented in the English Parliament, objected to taxation without representation."
"The King, as well as a certain group around him, failed to understand the spirit of the Colonists who still felt a great attachment to the Mother Country."
"At Valley Forge, where the Rebels endured tremendous privations for the cause which they believed to be so just. Sometimes some were without sufficient clothing even to venture from their cabins to gather firewood."
"Love of tender girlhood! Passionate deeds of heroes! A rushing, leaping drama of charm and excitement!"
"A Thrilling Story of Love and Romance"
"Neil Hamilton — Nathan Holden"
"Erville Alderson — Justice Montague"
"Carol Dempster — Miss Nancy Montague"
"Charles Emmett Mack — Justice Charles Montague"
"Lee Beggs — Samuel Adams"
"John Dunton — John Hancock"
"Arthur Donaldson — King George III"
"Charles Bennett — William Pitt"
"Downing Clarke — Lord Chamberlain"
"Frank Walsh — Thomas Jefferson"
"Frank McGlynn Sr. — Patrick Henry"
"Arthur Dewey — George Washington"
"P. R. Scammon — Richard Henry Lee"
"Lionel Barrymore — Capt. Walter Butler"
"Louis Wolheim — Capt. Peter Hare"
"Sydney Deane — Sir Ashley Montague (final film role)"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.