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"Our mission here is over, gentlemen. I would like to thank you all for the way you have ...carried out your duties. Mr Gerard! I told you to clear the decks for action in ten minutes! [Gerard looks at Hornblower apprehensively] You did it in eight."
"Three months ago, the Spanish viceroy sent a diplomat who warned me to curb my political ambitions. In answer, I sent part of him back to Panama - his head, to be precise."
"A burning town is a magnificent sight!"
"[On his way to Paris with Hornblower to be executed as a spy] Well, I expected to lose my leg, sir... but not all the way up to the neck."
"Wherever adventure beckons, you'll find Captain Horatio Hornblower!"
"The sun never sets on his world of adventure."
"Gregory Peck as Capt. Horatio Hornblower, R.N."
"Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara Wellesley (Duke of Wellingtons sister)"
"Robert Beatty as 1st. Lt. William Bush"
"Terence Morgan as 2nd Lt. Gerard, an officer on the Lydia"
"Moultrie Kelsall as 3rd. Lt. Crystal, an officer on the Lydia"
"James Kenney as Midshipman Longley"
"James Robertson Justice as Seaman Quist, who helps Hornblower and Bush escape"
"Denis O'Dea as Rear Admiral Sir Rodney 'Mucho Pomposo' Leighton"
"Richard Hearne as Polwheal, Hornblower's steward"
"Michael Dolan as Surgeon Gundarson"
"Stanley Baker as Mr. Harrison, Hornblower's bosun (Boatswain)"
"Alec Mango as El Supremo (Don Julian Alvarado)"
"Christopher Lee as the Spanish captain of the Natividad"
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.