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...Cool. India's attack followed weeks of jingoistic dissemblance by Nehru in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (Lower House). Prodded by Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon and faced with elections in February (see box), Nehru aimed a barrage of inflated and inflammatory charges at the Portuguese. He claimed that Portuguese naval vessels had attacked an Indian fishing boat and an Indian merchant ship, and that well-armed Portuguese troops were "massing menacingly" along the 180-mile Indo-Goan border. Portugal's colonial authorities, Nehru said, were brutally oppressing the Goan people, most of whom were Hindus...
...19th century was, in retrospect, not such a bad century, and even gunboat diplomacy had its virtues. What made the whole enterprise so offensive was India's past relentless posture of ethical superiority and its present hypocritical attempts to justify the invasion on moral grounds. India, argued Krishna Menon, was really defending itself because "colonialism is permanent aggression.'' Forgetting his manufactured threat of a potent Portuguese defending army, Nehru said: "The justification of this action is that it lasted only 36 hours.''* Added Krishna Menon: "If there was a strong government...
...fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured violence against any country when it's to our interest...
...most widely held responsible for India's conquest of Goa is not Jawaharlal Nehru, but Nehru's abrasive, acerbic Defense Minister, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, who apparently provided the necessary push to overcome his master's remaining scruples. With elections due in February, Nehru and Menon have been under continuous harassment from Indian leftists for not expelling the Portuguese "imperialists" and from moderates and rightists for ignoring Red China's new incursions on India's northern frontier. Acting against Goa was one way to cover up inaction against China. Moreover, Menon's own parliamentary...
Flamboyant, brusque, rude and arbitrary, as well as quick, capable and intelligent, 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...