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dated December 1, 1955: `Portugal won't leave Goa'

The Portuguese Foreign Minister, Dr. Paulo A. Cunha, addressing a press conference in New York on November 29, called upon other Western colonial powers to copy his country's "firmness" in Goa. Indian newspapermen were specifically excluded from the press conference. Dr. Cunha, who is in the US to confer with the Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, said: "Portugal has no intention of leaving its Indian possession. The firmness of the Portuguese towards their possessions might well be followed by other Western nations. Our presence there (Indian colonial pockets) is in the best interest of the West." Asked to comment on the Soviet Premier, Mr. Bulganin's statement that Goa was a shame to civilised nations, Dr. Cunha said: "In the light of the Soviet Union's enslavement of nations and peoples, Mr. Bulganin has no business to talk about civilisation."

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