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"If there is any way of destroying hatred and all that goes with it, it's not through evil and hatred and cruelty, but through charity, love, understanding."
"They say you can only get justice by shedding their last drop of blood. Isn't a lifetime behind prison bars enough for this mad act?...You hang these boys, it will mean that in this land of ours, a court of law could not help but bow down to public opinion."
"In those years to come, you might find yourself asking if it wasn't the hand of god dropped these glasses... And if he didn't, who did?"
"[to Judd Steiner] It just irritates me to see anyone as brilliant as you make a jackass out of himself over someone like Artie Straus."
"The neighborhood is swarming with kidnappers and degenerates!"
"You know why we did it? Because we damn well felt like doing it!"
"Sometimes murder is just a way to pass the time."
"THEIRS WAS THE PERFECT CRIME they thought! They were too sure...too smart...too careful to leave a clue—but they did! and it exploded—The shocking story of two teenagers out for kicks...looking for thrills...and finding them!"
"Orson Welles - Jonathan Wilk"
"Diane Varsi - Ruth Evans"
"Dean Stockwell - Judd Steiner"
"Bradford Dillman - Artie Strauss"
"E. G. Marshall - District Attorney Harold Horn"
"Martin Milner - Sid Brooks"
"Richard Anderson - Max Steiner"
"Robert F. Simon - Police Lt. Johnson"
"Edward Binns - Tom Daly"
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.