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...incompetent petty tyranny in Goa and, unlike Britain and France, stubbornly clung to a hopeless anachronism in refusing to get out of India. By claiming weakly that Goa was not a colony but an "overseas province," Portugal did indeed (as India's U.N. Delegate C. S. Jha put it) stand "against the tide of history...
Means to an End. This same line was piped by Indian Delegate Jha as the U.N. Security Council met in response to Portugal's call for the U.N. to "denounce and rectify this lawless action of the Indian government." Said Jha bluntly: "This is a question of getting rid of the last vestiges of colonialism in India. Charter or no Charter, Security Council or no Security Council, that is our basic faith, which we cannot afford to give up at any cost." With breathtaking, topsy-turvy logic, Jha indicted Portugal as the aggressor. "It is not India that...