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"[addressing his staff before his personal plane, the Bataan, lands in Japan] Gentlemen, we will take no weapons with us when we step off this airplane. Nothing will impress them more than a show of absolute fearlessness. If they don't know they're licked by now, they will get the picture today. Now let's show them some good old-fashioned American swagger."
"[typing a report after meeting Baron Kido] It is a fundamental American concept that the people of any nation have the inherent right to choose their own government. Were the Japanese given this opportunity, they would select the Emperor as their symbolic head of state. In effecting our bloodless occupation, we requisitioned the services of the Emperor. By his order, seven million soldiers laid down their arms. Through his act, hundreds of thousands of American casualties were avoided. His guilt or innocence in the prosecution of the war is unknowable, but his decisive role in ending the war is beyond dispute. If the Emperor were tried for war crimes, the governmental structure would collapse, and a general uprising would be inevitable. There would be chaos and bloodshed. It would take more than a million American servicemen to oversee the occupation for years to come. In conclusion, the people of Japan have suffered greatly, and it is in their interest beyond all other considerations that I strongly urge allowing the Emperor to continue on his throne as the leader of his people."
"Japan 1945: General Douglas MacArthur was given a mission to decide the fate of a nation, the guilt of a leader, and the true price of peace."
"After the War was won, the battle for Peace began."
"Matthew Fox - BG Bonner Fellers"
"Tommy Lee Jones - General Douglas MacArthur"
"Eriko Hatsune - Aya Shimada"
"Masayoshi Haneda - Takahashi"
"Colin Moy - Major General Richter"
"Masatoshi Nakamura - Former Japanese Prime Minister Prince Konoe Fumimaro"
"Isao Natsuyagi - TeizaburĹŤ Sekiya, member of the Privy Council"
"MasatĹŤ Ibu - Mqrquis Lord KĹŤichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal"
"TakatarĹŤ Kataoka - Emperor Hirohito"
"ShĹŤhei Hino - Former Japanese Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo"
"Toshiyuki Nishida - General Kajima"
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.