Word: goa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing of 27 percent of U.S. territory to Russian nationals is typical. The President has called for deeds and not words, but the Secretary of State has given forth a stream of words--from "massive retaliation" to "agonizing reappraisal" to "liberation of the satellites" to "the Portuguese province of Goa" to "the brink of war"--which have done far more to frighten our allies and our potential allies than to scare the Soviet Union. The President has asked for close consultation between the U.S. and Britain and France, but the Secretary of State has released the Yalta Papers, announced...
...warders' quarters, he was promptly transferred. Even one of the prison matrons was said to have warned all rival females: "Leave McKerrow alone. He's my man!" -although McKerrow himself vigorously denied having relationships with anyone but a dusky teen-ager on the outside named Christine Goa, whom he had made pregnant...
Later, facing a hostile press conference, Dulles acquitted himself well. The first sharp question was about his statement that Goa is a Portuguese "province"; he replied that the U.S. has taken no stand on the merits of the Goan dispute. He was needled about arms aid to Pakistan, which Indians think may be turned against them. Replied Dulles: "Certainly Pakistan knows if that should happen there would be a quick end to its good relations with the U.S. On the contrary, the U.S. would be supporting India if it became victim of any armed aggression...
...India regard such a statement as was made by Mr. Dulles . . . concerning Goa? Just think what Dulles said: he ventured openly to declare that the Indian territory of Goa must belong to Portugal merely because the Portuguese invaders captured it 400 years ago. In connection with this the Indian press recalled quite justly that 250 years ago the present-day United States was a colony of Britain, and that if one follows his line of thought, then Dulles should consider himself to be a subject of Her Royal Majesty" (laughter, applause...
...half the cost. Senator East land will demand that the U.S. secede from the U.N." and lynch them Ruskies." Russia, in the meantime, will announce the installation of the "Peasant Boys' Administration; what is good for General Zhukov is good for the Soviet Union." Guatemala will claim Goa...