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...easy to see why Nehru chose this moment to invade the three Portuguese enclaves on India's west coast, though it is impossible to condone an assertion of Indian self-interest at the expense of the Goan people. The Goa adventure compensates for Nehru's failure to prevent a Chinese military occupation of some 12,000 miles of Indian Himilayan territory. Facing elections and a storm of criticism from the Indian nationalist right, the Prime Minister has taken the easy, demagogue's path of opening a new and popular anti-colonialist front...
...discussion of self-determination is, of course, academic. The invasion is over, and India possesses Goa by right of conquest. It is also useless to point out that Prime Minister Nehru rejected the pleas of President Kennedy, the mediation offers of Secretary General U Thant, and a Portuguese proposal that international observers be sent to Goa--though none of these things should be forgotten...
India, said Nehru, would not be bullied by the Red Chinese. He revealed that in a note from Peking, Red China had issued a veiled threat to India that it might send troops across the frontier. India, said Nehru, would "resist and repel" such measures. "I do not rule out war," he told the Parliament. "We are friendly with every country in the world. But we will fight with China. My desire is to avoid it but not to submit as well. If we have to take such a step, we will take it." But, he added, "I am free...
Colonial Pimple. Nehru's new muscle tone was immediately attacked by Peking as fulfilling the "needs of U.S. imperialism." Calling Nehru a liar, an official editorial charged that Nehru's "anti-Chinese" campaign was "inseparably connected with U.S. 'assistance' to India"-in short, that Nehru was only paying back a debt...
...defensive on the northern frontier, India was on the offensive against the tiny, 456-year-old Portuguese colony of Goa, 1,300 miles to the southwest. Hopefully trying to scare the Portuguese colonial authorities into going home, Nehru had massed Indian army regulars on the Goa border. "Goa is a constant irritant," said Nehru. "It must come to India." The situation in Goa, he declared, was "intolerable." Actually Goa (1,300 sq. mi.) was only, as Nehru once said, a pimple on the face of India, embarrassing because it was still a colonial territory on the Indian subcontinent...