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...Jawaharlal Nehru may have had misgivings over some of the rambunctious remarks his guests had made, but that was not why Nehru was mad last week. He was miffed at John Foster Dulles, who, in receiving the Portuguese Foreign Minister, had joined in a communique which referred to disputed Goa in the phrase the Portuguese use for it, as a "province" of Portugal...
...done it again. Not content with his "mass retaliation" blunder, he again stumbled, this time apparently after looking very carefully at the pit before him. Searching for peace, Dulles again has dropped a bomb, needlessly irritating a people whom we hope to secure as allies. By referring to Goa as a Portuguese province Dulles managed to enrage the Indians. And amazingly enough, after having aroused them for no good purpose, he still refuses, in his good old blunt way, to offer any conciliation...
Dulles' statement of Goa's relationship to Portugal was, of course, factually correct. Portugal has held sway in Goa for a long time. Goans are citizens of Portugal, etc. But what Mr. Dulles does not seem to realize is that the truth plainly stated does not constitute the whole of grace in diplomatic affairs. His specific reference to Goa as "a province" of Portugal may have been true, but it was not politic and not necessary...
...plea for peaceful settlement of this sensitive situation was perhaps needed, but it was not necessary to appear to take sides in the issue. As Dulles himself said, sticking up for Portugal in Goa is not a part of our NATO commitments. Certainly, making a joint statement with a Portuguese governor was in no way obligatory. Appearing as the joint policy of Portugal and the United States, the statement seems a calculated insult to the Indians...
Last week the time had come to assert the ascendancy of police force over soul force. First Nehru ordered that there be no more satyagraha against Goa. "As a government," he said, "we obviously cannot have satyagraha against another government. Governments do not do that sort of thing." Then, exerting all the strength of his prestige and popularity, Nehru compelled the Congress Party executive to reverse its Goa resolution of last July and vote, ruefully but unanimously, to renounce satyagraha as a method of political action, "whether undertaken individually or collectively...