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...being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquito, the easier enemy to avoid is the elephant. The wiser thing to do would be to first destroy the mosquito and then to go for the elephant. Nehru has done well in driving away the Portuguese mosquito from Goa. By Indian troops taking over Goa, the Chinese dragon (or elephant) has taken notice of Indian strength. Even if Nehru is doing his best to ignore Communist China's incursion into Northern India, the Indian nation...
...should the American press criticize our action in Goa? Did the Americans win their independence by nonviolence...
Ruined Policy. To the extent that the conquest of Goa encouraged Sukarno to hope for a cheap victory of his own, it also caused widespread dismay in The Netherlands. Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, 50, a strong man in a weak, conservative Cabinet, had based his New Guinea policy on the belief that India's "peaceable" Nehru would never support military action by Indonesia, and that the U.N. would immediately act against aggression. Now his policy lies in ruins...
...himself and Home Affairs Minister Edzo Toxopeus. wants Papuan self-determination guaranteed by the Indonesians before sitting down to the conference table. In Indonesia, Sukarno is restrained by the fact that an invasion of New Guinea is a far more risky military operation than was the Indian walkover in Goa. Should the invasion fail, Sukarno might well be overthrown as a consequence...
...scorn heaped on India's Prime Minister Nehru for his invasion of Goa was almost unanimous in the world's press. Samples...