Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, it was as necessary last week that President John Kennedy should caution India's Prime Minister Nehru against taking military action against the insignificant Portuguese enclave of Goa as that he should intervene personally in an attempt to mediate in the explosive Congo (see THE WORLD). And it seemed important that he should go ahead with a largely ceremonial visit to Latin America, even though he had been warned that it might be dangerous. For ceremony is the visible side of policy, and the U.S. would have suffered a serious setback if the President had reneged...
...elephant and needled by a mosquito-and goes for the mosquito. While doing his best to ignore Communist China's latest incursions in a vast (50,000 sq. mi.), disputed area oi northeastern India, Nehru declared recently that Portugal's lush, Rhode Island-sized colony of Goa on India's west coast was becoming increasingly "intolerable." Last week, for all Neutralist Nehru's past protestations that India would never use force tp eject the Portuguese from the last European colony on Indian soil, his armed forces were building up on Goa's 180-mile border...
Nehru has been trying to get Portugal to pull out of Goa (pop. 700,000) since the British withdrew from India in 1947* Unlike France, which reluctantly quit its last Indian possessions in 1954, Portugal's Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar insists that the 451-year-old colony, like his country's other overseas possessions, is a Portuguese "province." After breaking off diplomatic relations with the Portuguese in 1955, Nehru declared loftily: "History will remove them...
...popular abroad. The rest of the world can scarcely be expected to leap to the aid of a nation whose brutal treatment of Angola is an international scandal. With Portugal's repression in mind, no decent person will step forward to say what is, after all, the truth: that Goa is not Angola...
...discussion of self-determination is, of course, academic. The invasion is over, and India possesses Goa by right of conquest. It is also useless to point out that Prime Minister Nehru rejected the pleas of President Kennedy, the mediation offers of Secretary General U Thant, and a Portuguese proposal that international observers be sent to Goa--though none of these things should be forgotten...