Clearly Salazar was using Goa and Goans as pawns in his game to prop up the bankrupt (literally and figuatively) Portuguese regime in Lisbon. And brown Portuguese in Goa looked upon Lisbon as their savior! Another example of: "One eyed man is a king among the blind" Kind Regards, GL
Teotonio R. de Souza: M.M.Stocker recounts the fall of Portuguese regime in Goa in 1961, presenting critically the diplomatic and military strategies adopted by Salazar. Points to his success in forcing India to stain its pacifist image, but also to his failure in sensing correctly the contemporary world politics and also the feelings of the Portuguese citizens at home. The �checkmate� in the title of the book suggests an analogy of �poker� game. The book seeks to analyse how Salazar failed to see the enemy hand as well as his own hand. He bluffed and lost. He trusted the virtues of Nehru and was hoping that he would balk before the self-sacrificing Portuguese troops. He believed that there would be no invasion at all, or if it did, it would provoke large massacre. In either case Salazar hoped to improve the image of Portugal in India and elsewhere, specially in Portuguese African colonies, which were simmering. Both his calculations failed.
