Word: goa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, its image in India has slightly clouded over. The change is due partly to the U.S. fiasco in Cuba, but more importantly to U.S. criticism of Indian actions: India's bull-headed demand for another unworkable nuclear test ban last October, the unsavory adventure in Goa...
...sternest test of Galbraith's skill came before the invasion of Goa. He spent two hours trying to dissuade Nehru, rose early next morning to write a forceful two-page memo. Nehru postponed the invasion three days when Galbraith promised that Washington would do its utmost to persuade Portugal to agree to a face-saving U.N. arbitration. The attempt foundered on Portugal's refusal. Once the invasion was over (in 36 hours), Galbraith thought the Goa matter should be dropped, argued that further U.S. censure of India was futile and would only make the Indians tougher to deal...
...this there is much truth, but it is an irritatingly useless kind of truth, and President Kennedy should be able to tell Lord Home why: whatever the theoretically proper thing to do, the great world powers are simply not capable of acting together on issues like Goa or the Congo. The Cold War and their own conflicting interests cripple them. Thus, Lord Home's eagerness to discredit an admittedly flawed United Nations makes him forget that it is the only instrument the world has at the moment. In the Congo, it may even be succeeding in establishing peace--which...
...succeeding in the Congo and has failed in Goa. This is a decent average, and Lord Home should not be so quick to criticize. He should worry, as Adlai Stevenson has done, about how to strengthen the UN executive, so that there is a possibility of its acting consistently for peace...
This is true enough in the case of the Indian invasion of Goa, and one can hardly question Hoffmann's sentiment...