Word: goa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then your fairy godfather over here came through solidly as he always does. "Goa?" he said. "That's a Portuguese province." And, of course that made things just hunky-dory with you because you could say some nice things about Kashmir and come off top dog after all. pinch and you got a nice fat contract to build those Burmese a dam. That was a fine present, wasn...
...Jawaharlal Nehru may have had misgivings over some of the rambunctious remarks his guests had made, but that was not why Nehru was mad last week. He was miffed at John Foster Dulles, who, in receiving the Portuguese Foreign Minister, had joined in a communique which referred to disputed Goa in the phrase the Portuguese use for it, as a "province" of Portugal...
...Dulles issued a further explanation (which did not satisfy the Indians) that the U.S. remains "neutral" in the dispute over the colony which has been Portuguese since 1510. It was all too easy for Khrushchev to repeat "Look who your friends are," to endorse India's claim on Goa and denounce the U.S. as a colonialist power...
Dulles' statement of Goa's relationship to Portugal was, of course, factually correct. Portugal has held sway in Goa for a long time. Goans are citizens of Portugal, etc. But what Mr. Dulles does not seem to realize is that the truth plainly stated does not constitute the whole of grace in diplomatic affairs. His specific reference to Goa as "a province" of Portugal may have been true, but it was not politic and not necessary...
...plea for peaceful settlement of this sensitive situation was perhaps needed, but it was not necessary to appear to take sides in the issue. As Dulles himself said, sticking up for Portugal in Goa is not a part of our NATO commitments. Certainly, making a joint statement with a Portuguese governor was in no way obligatory. Appearing as the joint policy of Portugal and the United States, the statement seems a calculated insult to the Indians...