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dated December 7, 1955: US envoy summoned

The American Ambassador in Delhi, Mr. Sherman Cooper, was summoned to the Foreign Office on December 5, soon after Prime Minister Nehru had stated in the Lok Sabha that the joint communiqué issued in Washington by the US Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles, and the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Dr. Cunha, in which a reference was made to "Portuguese provinces in the Far-East" was a "matter of far-reaching consequences." Mr. Cooper met the Foreign Secretary, Mr. S. Dutt, who conveyed to him the serious view India took of the communiqué insofar as it might have had any relation to the problem of Goa. The Indian Ambassador in Washington, Mr. G.L. Mehta, has also been asked to seek clarification from the US State Department. The mention in the Dulles-Cunha communiqué to "Portuguese provinces in the Far East" has raised the question whether the US is acquiescing in Portugal's continued hold over Goa contrary to the previous US attitude as explained by Mr. Cooper himself at a press conference in September last. Mr. Cooper had then said that the US Government had not taken any position in regard to the dispute over Goa, and that the US had always stood against colonialism.

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