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On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 2:02 AM, Eugene Correia <eugene.corr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The story of Nehru defying Kennedy is "diplomatic" spin. Kennedy seemingly > okayed India's plan but kept public silence. The US didn't get NATO into > action as Portugal demanded. Portugal was part of the alliance. > Kennedy was convinced that Portugal was adamant in clinging to Goa, USA > Ambassador, John Kenneth Galbraith, a Canadian-born US diplomat, played a > big role. earlier, Canadian Ambassador, Escott Reid, was also on India's > side. > Portugal was not paying heed to USA's plea to give up Goa. Portugal also > defied India's diplomatic efforts, till Nehru, pushed by circumtances and > pressure from the freedom fighters and Defence Minister Krishna Menon, > ordered the army to march into Goa. > > What has happened since the, and the current problems, were not expected. > But they are realities niw. > > Eugene > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jan 1, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > The Praveen Davar article in the Hindu is either half-baked or > conveniently omits an inconvenient truth. > > > > The much touted claim that the Portuguese were obstinate and Nehru was > pushed into a corner by other Indians to use violence against Goa makes > fools of thinking people. > > > > How about the non-violent approach of allowing Goans themselves who were > virtually running the Portuguese administration in Goa, to determine Goa’s > future for themselves, within a broad Indian framework rather than > violently snatching it from them, thus avoiding the Churchills Kamats and > Parrikars, the progeny of louts, to thrust themselves on a virgin Goa of > unblemished character. > > > > Did Nehru not foresee that his people are by an large a loutish lot > prone to indiscipline and corruption and quick to forget the values that > the British had drilled into them for 150 years. Did his intelligence and > statesmanship not take into account that the the gigantic number of louts > would squash the “liberated” territory, fashioning it in their own image of > loutishness. > > > > Or was he vain enough to think that his promises of “special treatment” > would be honoured by his surviving louts. > > > > Roland Francis > > 416-453-3371 > > > > > >> On Jan 1, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Frederick Noronha < > fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-liberation- > of-goa/article22339624.ece > >> -- > >> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > >> _/ > >> _/ FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 > >> _/ RADIO GOANA: https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha > >> _/ > >> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >
