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...true colors. Never giving a frank and definite response to questions, Nehru proved a master at evading questions on TV during his recent visit to this country. How fitting that this champion pussyfooter got up sufficient nerve to use brute force against those gentle, timid people in Goa who have lived in their country just 400 years...
What are the basic elements of our policy in regard to Goa? First, there must be peaceful methods. This is essential unless we give up the roots of all our policies and all our behavior . . . We rule out nonpeaceful methods entirely...
Kennedy and Macmillan reviewed the current rash of trouble spots-Goa, the Congo, South Viet Nam. Netherlands New Guinea-but they soon settled down to the continuing, fundamental problem of how to meet the Russian threat against Berlin. Both Kennedy and Macmillan admitted that they were perplexed by the motive behind Khrushchev's recent line on West Berlin. The Russian Premier could be toughening his stand either because he does not want negotiations or because he wants to go into negotiations with a hard position to use as bargaining leverage...
...policy of nonviolence and lecturing the world-especially the U.S.-about its aggressiveness. India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru went, as he piously put it, "contrary to my grain.'' On Nehru's orders, Indian forces invaded the tiny, 451-year-old Portuguese colony of Goa on India's west coast. In a three-pronged attack, crack Sikh and Dogra troops of the Indian army's 17th Division, abetted by gunfire and air force jets, overran Goa and the Portuguese enclaves of Diu and Damao in a naked act of aggression that forever tarnished Nehru...
Actually, many Goans were cool to the idea of union. Goa was in far better economic condition than India, and was developing huge and profitable iron and manganese deposits in north Goa. Goan businessmen were more fearful of India's confiscatory taxes and stifling bureaucracy than they were of the petty restrictions of the Portuguese colonial authorities. Union would also end Goa's virtually duty-free status and the sight of peasant women buying Chanel No. 5 and field hands carrying transistor radios. Goan Christians, who account for 40% of Goa's 700,000 population, wondered about...