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India "should have waited a little longer" before using force to annex Goa, suggested Lloyd I. Rudolph '48, assistant professor of Government, yesterday afternoon...
...Things have changed quite a bit" since negotiations with Portugal over the status of its former colony began 14 years ago, Rudolph pointed out. By 1961, he said, there was no question in a "very differently comprised" U.N. that Goa was no longer protected as an integral part of Portugal by the NATO shield...
...harm; to a political meeting, Adenauer cracked that Thompson should not make a career of negotiating with the Russians. The Belgians were still grumbling about the lack of their allies' support in the Congo. Portugal made ugly noises about the absence of U.S. backing when India grabbed Goa. The Dutch complained that the Americans were no help at all in their struggle with Indonesia over West New Guinea...
...also attacked the Indian contention that since Goa was geographically and culturally part of India, the Indian government had a right to put an end to "illegal" Portuguese occupation unilaterally. Fisher claimed that Ceylon was also inhabited by Indians, and yet no one suggested that that country could be annexed by force...
...have endeavored for the past 14 years to negotiate with Portugal," he declared, but the Portuguese had resolutely refused to abandon their Indian colonies. Nehru also cited three U.N. resolutions declaring Goa a non-self-governing colony. Portugal had ignored even these less revolutionary resolutions, he said...