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"Well, remember me sometimes. I shall always remember you. "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit." I need not translate it for you."
"[dying words] I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys."
"It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young."
"Ralston: [to Mr. Chips] And when you write that books of yours, remember that in addition to all those boys you taught, you managed to teach something to at least one headmaster."
"Robert Donat - Charles "Mr. Chips" Chipping"
"Greer Garson - Katherine Ellis"
"Terry Kilburn - John Colley, Peter Colley I, II and III"
"John Mills - Peter Colley (as a young man)"
"Paul Henreid - Max Staeffel"
"Judith Furse - Flora"
"Lyn Harding - Dr. John Hamilton Wetherby"
"Milton Rosmer - Mr. Chatteris"
"Austin Trevor - Ralston"
"Frederick Leister - Marsham"
"Louise Hampton - Mrs. Wickett"
"David Tree - Mr. Jackson"
"Edmond Breon - Colonel Morgan"
"Jill Furse as Helen Colley"
"Scott Sunderland - Sir John Colley"
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.