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"Well, when Voldar "accidentally" left us in the airlock and then came up here and "accidentally" threw the door switch, we knew we had to get out of there in a hurry or that would be the end of us. Eh, uh, "accidentally," of course."
"[after being asked if he is going to use a rocket sleigh] No siree! We're going out the good ol' fashioned way. Prancer and Dancer and Donder and Blitzen, and Vixen and Nixon... oh, consarnit I get those names mixed up, but the KIDS know their names."
"All this trouble over a fat little man in a red suit!"
"If we take them with us to Mars, Santa's disappearance will remain a mystery. No one on Earth will ever know that Santa Claus was kidnapped by Martians."
"You'll never get away with this, you Martian!"
"TV News Announcer: Here's another UFO Bulletin: The Defense Department has just announced that the unidentified flying object suddenly disappeared from our radar screen. They believe the object has either disintegrated in space, or it may be a space ship from another planet which has the ability to nullify all radar beams."
"TV News Announcer: [News report after Santa's disappearance] And Mrs. Claus has positively identified the kidnappers as Martians."
"U.S.A. Military Official: We are going to forget the safety checks and go after those Martian Monkeys!"
"Blast off for Mars... with Santa and a pair of Earth kids!"
"Science-Fun-Fiction at its height!"
"Santa Kidnapped by the Martians! Out-of-this-world fun 'n' action...as two Earth Kids are whisked away with him to Mars!"
"In space-blazing COLOR"
"Santa Brings Christmas Fun to Mars!"
"John Call - Santa Claus"
"Leonard Hicks - Kimar"
"Vincent Beck - Voldar"
"Bill McCutcheon - Dropo"
"Victor Stiles - Billy"
"Donna Conforti - Betty"
"Chris Month - Bomar"
"Pia Zadora - Girmar"
"Leila Martin - Momar"
"Charles Renn - Hargo"
"James Cahill - Rigna"
"Ned Wertimer - Andy Anderson"
"Doris Rich - Mrs. Claus"
"Carl Don - Chochem / Von Green"
"Ivor Bodin - Winky"
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.