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"It's on its way for the biggest meal of its life."
"How do you explain it, sir? All this extraordinary damage just to steal an old sample container?"
"Major Cartwright: You know this Royston chap. Brilliant, of course, I'm sure. But the trouble with these scientific types is they can't see the easy way out of anything. It's got to be complicated if it's going to work."
"Can anything escape its terror?"
"NOTHING CAN STOP IT!"
"It rises from 2000 miles below the earth to melt everything in its path!"
"Dean Jagger — Dr. Adam Royston"
"Leo McKern — "Mac" McGill"
"Edward Chapman — John Elliott"
"William Lucas — Peter Elliott"
"Peter Hammond — Lieutenant Bannerman"
"Anthony Newley — Lance Corporal "Spider" Webb"
"Ian MacNaughton — Haggis"
"Michael Ripper — Sergeant Harry Grimsdyke"
"Michael Brooke — Willie Harding"
"Frazer Hines — Ian Osborne"
"Norman Macowan — Old Tom"
"John Harvey — Major Cartwright"
"Edwin Richfield — Soldier Burned on Back"
"Jane Aird — Vi Harding"
"Neil Hallett — Unwin"
"Kenneth Cope — Private Lansing"
"Jameson Clark — Jack Harding"
"Marianne Braun — Zena, the Nurse"
"Brown Darby — The Vicar"
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.