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Indian navy minesweepers carefully swept Mormugão harbor, India's richest prize from the invasion and the finest natural harbor on the Indian subcontinent. Biggest economic boon of union with India for agriculturally impoverished Goa will be the availability of cheaper food. After India placed a trade embargo on Goa in 1954, the Goans were forced to import most of their food and vegetables from as far away as The Netherlands. The trade ban will soon be lifted...
...Freedom Party's organ, Swarajya Rajagopalachari assailed India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "this claptrap Goa action. No cartoon can do full justice to the contradictions of our international peace policy arising out of Mr. Nehru's action. India has helped undermine the prestige and power of the U.N. Security Council. India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power." India, continued Rajagopalachari, had claimed that its action was based on anticolonialist grounds, yet had courted a Soviet veto of the U.N. request for a cease-fire even...
Though he agreed that the presence of the Portuguese in Goa "was an offense to Indian nationalism," Rajagopalachari added that "it was not a greater offense than China's exploits on the Himalayan border. Our nationalism has led us into impatience at the wrong moment, when in the international world there is trouble brewing everywhere, and we have a mission for promoting peace and a special qualification for fulfilling that mission. The moment may have been thought just the time by those who had an eye on the elections, but from the international angle it is the wrong moment...
Nehru shrugged off the criticism. At a press conference he rejected a purely academic suggestion that India pull out of Goa. said: "There would be hell in the world if this happened." He also temporized on the question of Red China, hedged on whether he would demand that the Red Chinese withdraw from the 14,000 square miles of Indian territory that they occupy. Nehru publicly thanked Nikita Khrushchev for his understanding of the "motives and ideas" behind the Indian invasion, said that he deplored the Western condemnation of the action. "I do not like this division of opinion...
...members, for the first time, are supporting the use of force "to achieve national ends." Goa, said Lord Home, is a case in point. "Whatever the provocations suffered by India, there is no doubt at all that her actions were a direct breach of the U.N. Charter and of international law." Yet four members of the Security Council condoned India and many more delegations, "perhaps a majority," would have done the same had the issue gone to the General Assembly...