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dated December 8, 1955: Dulles defends statement

The US Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, has reaffirmed and defended his recent statement that Goa was a province of Portugal. Mr. Dulles was answering questions at a press conference in Washington on December 6 about the protests in India over the statement he had made jointly last week with the Foreign Minister of Portugal, Dr. Paulo Cunha. He said that so far as he knew all the world regarded Goa as a Portuguese province and it had been so for 400 years.

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