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dated August 5, 1955: US concern over Goa

The U.S. Government hopes that the India-Portugal dispute over Goa will be settled by peaceful means in line with the U.N. Charter, the Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, told a press conference in Washington. "America is as worried over tension in this matter as it would be over any dangerous situation elsewhere," he said. Mr. Dulles declared himself happy about the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the Indian Government would not use force to re-take Goa and expressed his conviction that the Portuguese Government would follow the same principle. Mr. Dulles said it had always been the U.S. policy to support the principle of U.N. Charter that disputes should be settled by peaceful means.In New Delhi, the Home Minister, Mr. Govind Ballabh Pant, said the Government were deeply concerned at "this new evidence of the brutal methods the Portuguese authorities are employing against peaceful satyagrahis."

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