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...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 in Goa, why did it not resist...
Scorning this argument, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson strongly stated the West's case. "What is at stake is not colonialism,'' he said. "It is a bold violation of the most basic principles of the United Nations Charter. Prime Minister Nehru has often said that no right end can be served by a wrong means. The Indian tradition of nonviolence has inspired the whole world. But this act of force with which we are confronted mocks the faith of India's frequent declarations of exalted principles...
...Lost Argument. India's victory was hailed by the Afro-Asians and the Communists. From Russia, Nikita Khrushchev cabled Nehru his approval. Momentarily abandoning its border feud with India. Red China announced its "resolute support." No word of protest was heard in India. Draped in a cloak of injured innocence, the Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities...
...India faces more serious problems than reconciling its propaganda with demonstrable facts. Now that military action has been taken against the Portuguese, Nehru will find it difficult to explain his refusal to resist and repel Red China's border incursions. Gone is Nehru's argument that he will "negotiate and negotiate and negotiate to the bitter end" the Sino-Indian frontier disputes. Continued backing-down will lay Nehru open to the charge that he has double standards of courage...
Another emergent problem may involve Pakistan and the Kashmir dispute. By indicating that a refusal to negotiate is an excuse for military action, Nehru has handed the Pakistanis a perfect argument to resolve the Kashmir problem; like Portugal's Salazar, Nehru has refused to confer on Pakistan's right to the mountainous northern Indian province. But most importantly, Nehru and India will find it now impossible to preach nonviolence and compromise at any cost to the rest of the world...