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"Only one thing makes war justified and lawful, only one thing. When it's a struggle for law against force, for people's laws, their language and way of life. Everything that makes them what they are against a brutal effort to impose on them a life and language and laws which are not theirs and they do not want."
"If we are wrong to fight now, we were wrong to fight Hitler. We were wrong to fight the Kaiser. We were wrong to fight Napoleon. Wrong to fight Philip of Spain. Wrong to do anything but throw in the towel and crumple before the first brute force to come along."
"Patricia Hodge - Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP (Prime Minister)"
"James Fox - Lord Carrington KCMG MC PC (Foreign Secretary)"
"John Standing - Rt Hon William Whitelaw CH MC MP (Home Secretary)"
"Michael Cochrane - Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP (Financial Secretary to the Treasury)"
"Jeremy Child - Rt Hon Francis Pym MC MP (Lord President of the Council / Foreign Secretary)"
"Rupert Vansittart - Sir Robert Armstrong (Cabinet Secretary)"
"Jonathan Coy - Richard Luce MP (Minister of State, Foreign Office)"
"Clive Merrison - Rt Hon John Nott MP (Secretary of State for Defence)"
"Peter Blythe - Rt Hon Sir Michael Havers QC MP (Attorney-General)"
"Jeremy Clyde - Sir Nicholas Henderson (HM Ambassador to the United States)"
"Colin Stinton - Hon Alexander Haig (US Secretary of State)"
"Shaughan Seymour - Adm. Sir Henry Leach (First Sea Lord)"
"Anthony Calf - Robin Fearn (Head of Falkland Islands Department, Foreign Office)"
"Jasper Jacob - John Wilkinson MP (Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Nott)"
"Richard Cordery - Tom Enders (US Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs)"
"Bob Sherman - Hon. Ronald Reagan (President of the United States)"
"Lorelei King - Hon. Jeane Kirkpatrick (US Ambassador to the UN)"
"Garrick Hagon - Vernon Walters (Senior Adviser to the US Secretary of State)"
"Robert Hardy - Sir Anthony Parsons (HM Ambassador to the UN)"
"Arturo Venegas - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (UN Secretary-General)"
"Vernon Dobtcheff - Nicanor Costa Méndez (Argentine Minister of External Relations)"
"Robert Bowman - Hamilton Whyte (member, British Mission to the UN)"
"John Woodvine - Adm. of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin (Chief of the Defence Staff)"
"Tom Chadbon - Adm. Sir John Fieldhouse (C-in-C Fleet)"
"Gordon Langford Rowe - Rt Hon George Thomas MP (Speaker of the House of Commons)"
"Patrick Godfrey - Rt Hon Michael Foot MP (Leader of the Opposition)"
"Ron Meadows - Rt Hon Peter Shore MP (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer)"
"Renny Krupinski - David Lambie MP (Labour)"
"David Fleeshman - Rt Hon Denis Healey CH MBE MP (Deputy Leader of the Labour Party)"
"Charles McCurdy - John Browne MP (Conservative)"
"Martin Oldfield - Rt Hon Enoch Powell MP (Ulster Unionist)"
"Geoffrey Wilkinson - Sir Anthony Meyer Bt MP (Conservative)"
"Alan Rothwell - John Wells MP (Conservative)"
"Geoff Holman - Rt Hon Tony Benn MP (Labour)"
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.