I think a "bozou" is still a "bozou" if the person doesn't know the facts vis-a-vis the Liberation/ Aggression in Goa. The person can't assume to be a "bolinha" just because he or she thinks Nehru was at fault. zno doubt Nehru earned the wrath of many nations for abandonung his peace-loving statesmanship. As an advocate of non-aligment diplomacy, Nehru was criticised for using force. To manu he may have become a "bozou" from his position as "bolinha". To the Indians and Goan freedom-fighters he was a hero. Nehru died in 1964, and we don't know if he would give "special status" to Goa. Goa didn't qualify for this soecial status on its economic confition, but perhaps Nehru would persuade his colleagues to give it on cultural issues. Nehru, it seems, suffered the most, as the Nobel Prize for Peace, for which he was the favourite for thst year, was denied to him. I had a friend, Domingos Santos, secretary of the Lusitanian Society, which owned the famous Lusutanian club, and also tge populat meat shop in. bandra, wrote a small phamplet called Statehood -- the birthright of Goa (if I got the name right) showing how Goa could have benn guven statehood by Portugal. He showed the factors and that many nations were as small as Goa in land area. He was a fierce pro-Portuguese man.
Eugene. Sent from my iPad > On Jan 2, 2018, at 6:46 PM, Venantius J Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Still a bozou by any other name does not become a bolinha, nor for that > matter, phirni. > —Venantius J Pinto > > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Venantius J Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com >> wrote: > >> I see! >> —Venantius >> >> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 3:32 PM, 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 >>>>> _/ >>>>> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >> >>
