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"Do you think that we Hollanders, who threw the sea out of our country, will let the Germans have it? Better the sea."
"[speaking to the downed aircrew as RAF bombers approach] You see, that's what you're doing for us. Can you hear them running for shelter? Can you understand what that means to all the occupied countries? To enslaved people, having it drummed into their ears that the Germans are masters of the Earth. Seeing these masters running for shelter. Seeing them crouching under tables. And hearing that steady hum night after night. That noise which is oil for the burning fire in our hearts."
"Hugh Burden as John Glyn Haggard, pilot of B for Bertie"
"Eric Portman as Tom Earnshaw, second pilot"
"Hugh Williams as Frank Shelley, observer/navigator"
"Emrys Jones as Bob Ashley, wireless operator"
"Bernard Miles as Geoff Hickman, front gunner"
"Godfrey Tearle as Sir George Corbett, rear gunner"
"Googie Withers as Jo de Vries"
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.