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...Pangim. Still dressed in their jungle-green combat uniforms, 300 Indian army officers of the conquering "Black Cat" 17th division shuffled in time to the music. Patiently the 300-man stag line waited to dance with the only women who had been inveigled to attend the dance-three lonely Goan girls. "They don't like us," said an Indian officer. "They don't want jungle green here. They want white skins...
Despite Indian assertions that the Goan people were delighted with their "liberation," Indian troops elsewhere in Goa were received with similar muted enthusiasm. No welcoming arches or banners were strung over the streets, and the few Jai Hind (Hail India) slogans painted on official buildings had mostly been slapped on by the Indians themselves, not by an exuberant citizenry. Fraternization between the Indians and the Goans was almost nonexistent. Armed Indian infantrymen, their weapons slung over their shoulders, went sightseeing on near-deserted streets...
...been made in getting Goa's administration back into working order. Finance Ministry officials are drafting a new budget that will bring the former colony under the economic supervision of the central government, and the State Bank of India has taken over Goa's Banco Nacional Ultramarino. Goan policemen, who had vanished when the Indian troops first appeared, were back on the job wearing their Portuguese uniforms. An Indian postal official arrived in Goa with $3,000 worth of Indian stamps, and Indian telegraph and telephone authorities wrestled with the problem of replacing Goa's antiquated, hand...
Nehru dismissed such reservations. In answer to Portuguese "provocations," he bivouacked 30,000 troops across the Goan frontier. Both the U.S. and the U.N. rushed to head off the impending conflict. In an ironic reversal of roles, Nehru, who savors the part of international peacemaker, found himself on the opposite side of the table. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith four times tried to talk Nehru out of taking military action; Nehru was not listening. Replying to U.N. Acting Secretary-General U. Thant's appeal that India and Portugal negotiate their differences, Nehru said: "It is hardly possible...
...Menon has long antagonized the West-and a great many of his own countrymen. As he flew to New York last week to uphold India's case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly of a spectacular verbal display...