Portugal in India
Goa has not fallen. In the old city, among the crumhli baroque churches surrounded by malarial jungle, the body St. Francis Xavier lies still undecayed; and the veracity of t legend that predicts its dissolution at the moment of the endi of Portuguese rule has not yet been tested. The march Goa, announced f6r Indian Independence day (August I was a fiasco due as much to the restraining influence of Indian authorities as to the lack of native enthusiasm ante the Goans for a change of government. Small groups of Goa demanding union with India managed to cross the frontier. b were easily dealt with by the Portuguese, while Indian citize trying to accompany them were turned back by their o police. New Delhi seems to have decided at last against coup de main. Meanwhile diplomatic scurryings and exJuing of notes continue between the two countries. The upshot it all is that the Portuguese attitude is slightly more concilinto than it once was, but that Dr. Salazar still refuses to disc the question of Goa's sovereignty while Mr. Nehru is tam ill to discuss anything else.
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