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"The essential effectiveness of supply was an outstanding feature of the maneuvers. The magnitude of the problem alone was sufficient to warrant apprehension as to whether the troops would be supplied adequately. Combat commanders and the services alike deserve the highest praise for the results achieved."
"There is no question that many of the weaknesses developed in these maneuvers are repeated again and again for lack of discipline. Our troops are capable of the best of discipline. If they lack it, leadership is faulty. A commander who cannot develop proper discipline must be replaced."
"I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die; I ask and cannot answer If otherwise wish I."
"Oh Hell of ships and cities, Hell of men like me, Fatal second Helen, Why must I follow thee?"
"Was it so hard, Achilles, So very hard to die? Thou knowest and I know not — So much the happier I."
"Stand in the trench, Achilles, Flame-capped, and shout for me."
"Remember me when I am dead And simplify me when I’m dead."
"Under the little crosses where they rise The soldier rests. Now round him undismayed The cannon thunders, and at night he lies At peace beneath the eternal fusillade."
"I love to think that if my blood should be So privileged to sink where his has sunk, I shall not pass from Earth entirely But when the banquet rings, when healths are drunk,"
"Be mindful of the men they were, and raise Your glasses to them in one silent toast."
"I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes round with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair."
"But she would weep to see today how on his skin the swart flies move; the dust upon the paper eye and the burst stomach like a cave.For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death, who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt."
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.