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Sticky monsoon rains pelted the little band of marchers as they sloshed up the mud-laden roads toward the border of Goa. The long-heralded invasion was on. In the lush, Rhode Island-sized Portuguese colony on the west coast of India, 4,000 African troops and 1,000 Goan police waited, guns loaded and aimed. In far-off Lisbon, frantic crowds prayed in churches and demonstrated in the streets against the coming onslaught on Portugal's ancient colony...
...pint-size Portuguese colony on India's west coast, suffered an invasion last month. The invader was Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the Indian National Congress' well-known Socialist, who was promptly jailed when he tried to hold a political meeting, then deported. The Congress' Goan leader, Tristão Braganza Cunha, was also jailed, and tried by a military court. Last week he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, most of which he is expected to spend in Portugal's tropical African colony, Mozambique...
Meanwhile, the Indian press directed a spray of propaganda at what the Congress papers call "enemy pockets" and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru calls "these foreign pimples." A Goan Congress Party was functioning underground since no political parties are allowed, civil liberties are nonexistent and even a wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more...