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"I'm out to make a new life for myself. I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure, now I've retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important."
"I'm out to see the world I haven't seen and get a perspective on the USA. I might get to know myself at the same time. I might even get to know my wife."
"Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?"
"Baroness: Have you thought how little happiness there can be for the old wife of a young husband?"
"Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth"
"Ruth Chatterton - Fran Dodsworth"
"Paul Lukas - Arnold Iselin"
"Mary Astor - Mrs. Edith Cortright"
"Kathryn Marlowe - Emily Dodsworth McKee"
"David Niven - Captain Clyde Lockert"
"Gregory Gaye - Baron Kurt Von Obersdorf"
"Maria Ouspenskaya - Baroness Von Obersdorf"
"Odette Myrtil - Renée De Penable"
"John Payne - Harry McKee"
"Spring Byington - Matey Pearson"
"Harlan Briggs - Tubby Pearson"
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.