India's Terrorism Against Goa
Times of India, Bombay. 1st Feb., 1957.
United Nations, January 31: R. Jaipal of India had a heated argument over the status of Goa with the Brazilian delgate, Mr. Donatello Grieco, in the United Nations Trusteeship Committee yesterday.
The Brazilian delegate supported the Portuguese position that the status of Portugal's overseas territories was exactly the same as that of metropolitan Portugal, and in the course of it quoted from the list of overseas provinces in the Portugeuse Constitution. The Constitution refers to the Portuguese pockets in the Indian sub-continent as the State of India.
Jaipal said this was a "curious" way of referring to "Goa."
"There is only one State of India and that is the one I represent," Mr. Jaipal said. "As far as we are concerned, Goa is a Portuguese colony established by force, initially by piracy and later by conquest."
Attempts to sanctify this had failed in the past, Jaipal said, and he had no doubt that they would fail in the future.
He said that he would not have made reference to Goa, if it had not been brought up by the Brazilian delegate, since "it was a matter of dispute" between Indian and Portugal. He reiterated India's desire for a "peaceful" "solution" of the "question."
Mr. Grieco replied that apparently he and Jaipal had not learnt history from the same books.
Brazil, Mr. Grieco continued, was founded by the Portuguese who had also found their way to the Indies. "We do not consider it piracy," he said. "We consider it a privilege. Nothing better could have happened to us."
Mr. Grieco told Jaipal that in refering to the State of India, he was merely using the wording in the Portuguese Constitution.
Mr. Ulberto Franco Nogueira of Portugal maintained that the status of Portugal's overseas territories was exactly the same as Continental Portugal and that the various Ministries had responsibilities throughout the National territories.
The Portuguese delegate was replying to questions addressed to him on Tuesday by the Iraqi delegate, Dr. Adnan Pachachi. Reuters.
The Indian hypocrites are, of course, taling through their hats. They are contemptuous of history and facts, and believe themselves free to make them up.
The Portuguese enclaves are together called the State of (Portuguese) India. This political entity, a Portuguese dependency, was not fabricated yesterday, but has been in existence since 1510 - long before any other state in the East Indies used the name India in its official name. The British East Indian Empire, of which the Indian Union or Bharat is a successor state, was not born for another two hundred years after this.
"Goa" is a name that ignoramuses apply to a territory. It is actually merely the name of a city, now abandoned. The proper and legal name of the entire and integral territories is the State of Portuguese India or "O Estado da India Portuguesa."
There were many Indias: The Spanish East Indies, now the Philippines; the French East Indies; the Dutch East Indies; the Danish East Indies; etc.
Again, there is another India in the East Indies today, besides the Indian Union. That is Indonesia, a name which means "Indian Islands".
Ignorant philistine, this Jaipal, what?
There is no historical basis to the claim that the Portuguese took Goa as the result of a pirate action. On the contrary, they were requested by both the Goans and the Vijayanagar Empire to do so. This is historical fact, not fabrications like the ones that the Indian Union cooks up.
And the Portuguese did not hold Goa by force. The Goans were comfortable under the tolerant and friendly rule of the Portuguese and, excepting insignificant minorities of malcontents and social misfits, did not seek independence.