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Thus, it was as necessary last week that President John Kennedy should caution India's Prime Minister Nehru against taking military action against the insignificant Portuguese enclave of Goa as that he should intervene personally in an attempt to mediate in the explosive Congo (see THE WORLD). And it seemed important that he should go ahead with a largely ceremonial visit to Latin America, even though he had been warned that it might be dangerous. For ceremony is the visible side of policy, and the U.S. would have suffered a serious setback if the President had reneged...
India's Jawaharlal Nehru is like a man who is simultaneously being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquito-and goes for the mosquito. While doing his best to ignore Communist China's latest incursions in a vast (50,000 sq. mi.), disputed area oi northeastern India, Nehru declared recently that Portugal's lush, Rhode Island-sized colony of Goa on India's west coast was becoming increasingly "intolerable." Last week, for all Neutralist Nehru's past protestations that India would never use force tp eject the Portuguese from the last European colony...
...Nehru has been trying to get Portugal to pull out of Goa (pop. 700,000) since the British withdrew from India in 1947* Unlike France, which reluctantly quit its last Indian possessions in 1954, Portugal's Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar insists that the 451-year-old colony, like his country's other overseas possessions, is a Portuguese "province." After breaking off diplomatic relations with the Portuguese in 1955, Nehru declared loftily: "History will remove them...
...pressure to nudge history along has been mounting in India during recent months. In the U.N. last week, India accused Portugal of "wanton attacks" on Indian shipping and fishermen, charged that "heavy reinforcements of Portuguese troops and mercenaries" have been rushed to Goa. In addition, said Nehru, frontier violations, "bad cases of torture," and political "repression" pose "a direct challenge to India." Portugal dismissed India's charges as "barefaced falsehoods," declared that frontier "violations" were simulated by Indian troops who sneaked across the border and came back firing toward their own lines...
...probably has no more than 5,000 soldiers and few if any aircraft. According to most observers, Nehru's "liberation" would take at most a few days. Up to 30,000 crack Indian troops were deployed on Goa's forest-guarded border. Indian jet fighters screamed over the heart of Goa, and its only aircraft carrier cruised off the Goanese port of Marmagoa, Asia's finest harbor. Said a government statement: "Nationalists and underground circles in Goa are openly jubilant, waiting to welcome the Indian army...