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"You Nazis. I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches."
"I can't tell you Japs apart."
"People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious."
"I'll find out."
"It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you."
"Four stories high and no fire escape. I wouldn't jump if I were you. You might break every invisible bone in that poor, invisible body."
"Karl Heiser:: He has his own ideas, and that's dangerous. The Fuhrer doesn't like people who think their own thoughts."
"Baron Ikito: Occidental decay is nowhere more apparent than in that childish sentimentality of white men for their women."
"Ilona Massey — Maria Sorenson"
"Jon Hall — Frank Raymond"
"Peter Lorre — Baron Ikito"
"Sir Cedric Hardwicke — Gestapo Gruppenführer Conrad Stauffer"
"J. Edward Bromberg — Gestapo Standartenführer Karl Heiser"
"John Litel — John Gardiner"
"Albert Bassermann — Dr. Schmidt"
"Holmes Herbert — Sir Alfred Spencer"
"Keye Luke — Surgeon"
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.