CUTTING FROM THE
“The COLONIAL
TIMES”,
(Africa’s
largest selling Indian weekly)
A Political statue for Goa, which would give that
possession the same status as a Province of Metropolitan Portugal, has been
demanded by Dr. Floraino Melo, Indian intellectual and Deputy for Goa in the
National Assembly. Frequent cheers
interrupted the Indian Deputy as he spoke of conditions in Goa.
Goa
“is surrounded by hostile atmosphere,” Dr. Melo said, adding “it is
necessary to make known to all the people and governments of the world that our
India is and will continue to be Portuguese and to destroy forever the legend
that Portuguese territory requires British India to enable to it and subsist.”
Referring to the unrest in Goa.
Dr. Melo explained that this was caused by a few “Fifth Columnists and
Nazis, and intellectuals educated in central Europe and Fanatics who had failed
in life, who preach the absorption of Goa and foment hatred to the Portuguese
nation.”
The National Assembly unanimously approved the motion
of solidarity with the Government and people of Goa (Reuter.)
Reaction
Sir, -- Jai Hind. Who is this Dr. Floraino Melo,
“Indian intellectual and Deputy for Goa in the Portuguese National
Assembly?”
This Asiatic Quisling states that, “Goa is
surrounded by hostile atmosphere,” indeed it is and shall continue hostile
towards the Portuguese Imperialists, Nazis and Barbarians.
It is time that the Portuguese learn to view their record in Gomantak
more objectively than has been their habit in the past.
It ought to be recognized and understood that Portugal has ruined
Gomantak’s prosperity, manliness, culture, religion, arrested her economic
development and kept poor, loving Gomantak in abject misery as one vast rural
slum. She shall however, rise to
glory again.
Referring to the unrest in Goa, Quisling Melo
explained that, “it is due to the fifth Columnist”. This statement is an irony for the Gods to laugh, provocating
an insult to National Gomantak. Such
tactics may deceive the foreign public but only amuse the Gomantakies.
If it can crush the National Movement, I have a blue print for the
invasion of Mars.
Our time shall come to Settle Accounts with Quislings
and we shall not forget to demand an Account from this unworthy son who has sunk
to the depths of distortion and fabrication, to be brought before a tribunal of
an independent and national Gomantak.
Long live our glorious Motherland, its Revolution for
a free and Independent Gomantak.
Jai
Hind
Your etc
Elburgon,
7th December, 1946