Hi Gabriel and Teotonio: Thanks for including me in this dialogue. In political and diplomatic parlance is not, "to study a special statute" a polite was to shelve the issue or even worse?
To me the issue is not the effort and the desire- which I am sure there was. To me the issue: What were the end-results? Any practical changes to benefit the masses / the ruled? Regards, GL ---- Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Teotonio & Gilbert L, > > I came across the following snippet at > Roughly translated: > > "Marcello Caetano was, at the time (i.e. 1946), the > Minister for Colonies. His initial approach was, at > the suggestion of Prof. Floriano de Melo, Goan, > professor at the Medico-Surgical School of Goa and > Member of Parliament for (Portuguese) India in the > National Assembly (of Portugal), to study a special > statute, different from the standard model of the > Portuguese colonial legislation." > > Therefore, it does appear that Dr. Froilano de Mello > (as you can see, spellings differ for the same person) > did have an influence in the Portuguese Parliament in > altering the status of Goans, contrary to what > Teotonio had written way back. > > The Portuguese article, in paragraphs prior to the one > above, states that the population of the territories > comprising the Estado Portugues da India, of a little > over 600,000 inhabitants, *were all Portuguese > citizens in the eyes of the Law*. Also, the > government and the administration of the Estado was > carried out by Goans, many of them graduates of > universities of Lisboa, Porto and Coimbra. > > The last sentence above confirms what B. K. > Bohman-Behram (1955) had written earlier in his book, > Goa and Ourselves. > > The naval magazine of Dec 2001 has a number of > articles on Goa and India. > > Regards, > > Gabriel de Figueiredo. > Melbourne Australia. > > > Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. > http://au.movies.yahoo.com