Word: goa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, there are 800,000 Asians in Africa south of the Sahara-Hindus (the majority), Sikhs, Ismaili and Shia Moslems, Parsees and Christians from Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants...
...Others: Portuguese Goa and Macao, Britain's Hong Kong...
...fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian-claimed Portuguese colony on the India mainland, "a Portuguese province." Israel remembers that U.S. policy was much more pro-Israel during the Truman Administration. Egypt's Nasser hates Dulles for calling Nasser's attempt to play off Russia against the West. And Arabs in general will...
...filled the streets outside waiting to hear him. To a youth rally of 25,000, Menon cried defiance of Pakistan over the invasion of Kashmir, and drew roars of approval for a slashing attack on Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's determination to keep the colony of Goa. Cried Menon: "We may have to send a realistic map of the world to Salazar to prove to him that Goa is not near the Mediterranean...
...Goa & Gandhi. As for India's insistence that she control Portuguese-held Goa, Congressman Saund reminded respectful members of New Delhi's Rotary Club that the "vast majority of American people will not agree that Goa is part of Portugal. India should explain in direct and simple terms. Don't approach Americans with negative assumptions. Americans are friendly toward India and have no bias in any way-if we don't succeed, let us search our own hearts. That is what our leader Mahatma Gandhi said. Let us gird up our loins to remove misunderstandings...