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...fight beside British and French troops in the Middle East. (DULLES INSULTS OUR FORCES, shrieked London's tabloid Daily Sketch.) France will not forgive Dulles for his support of local movements against French colonial rule in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco. Nor will India forgive him for calling Goa, an Indian-claimed Portuguese colony on the India mainland, "a Portuguese province." Israel remembers that U.S. policy was much more pro-Israel during the Truman Administration. Egypt's Nasser hates Dulles for calling Nasser's attempt to play off Russia against the West. And Arabs in general will...
...filled the streets outside waiting to hear him. To a youth rally of 25,000, Menon cried defiance of Pakistan over the invasion of Kashmir, and drew roars of approval for a slashing attack on Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's determination to keep the colony of Goa. Cried Menon: "We may have to send a realistic map of the world to Salazar to prove to him that Goa is not near the Mediterranean...
...Goa & Gandhi. As for India's insistence that she control Portuguese-held Goa, Congressman Saund reminded respectful members of New Delhi's Rotary Club that the "vast majority of American people will not agree that Goa is part of Portugal. India should explain in direct and simple terms. Don't approach Americans with negative assumptions. Americans are friendly toward India and have no bias in any way-if we don't succeed, let us search our own hearts. That is what our leader Mahatma Gandhi said. Let us gird up our loins to remove misunderstandings...
...dispute over Goa, that pimple of Portuguese sovereignty on India's west coast, has been described by Jawaharlal Nehru as the "acid test" by which India judges other nations: any friend of India's must agree that Portugal should get out. Last week Goa became something of an acid test for India...
...claim before the World Court in The Hague 21 months ago, protesting that Portuguese were being denied the right to pass across Indian territory to get to two tiny Portuguese enclaves, Dadra and Nagar Aveli. Last week a case reached court-and though the Portuguese right to be in Goa was not at stake, the subject kept coming up. India had hired a potent battery of British lawyers, including former Socialist Attorney General Sir Frank Soskice, to argue that travel inside its own borders is an internal affair of India and that the court has no jurisdiction. The Indians also...