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I' INDIA WILL "FREE"
8A, SAYS
Mr. NEHRU
NEW iDKLHi (A.A.P,).—
The Prime minister (IWr.
Nehru) said yesterday that
the Portuguese settlement of
Goa would be liberated and
integrated with free India.
'IT is inconceivable that
any tiny bit of territory
on our soil should remain
under colonial rule when
our vast land has become
free," he said.
He was addressing a
crowd of .100,000 outside
New Delhi's Red Fort in an
Indian Independence Day
ceremony.
Mr. Nehru said Goa had
become ; a test for all na
tions of the world and their
attitude to 'it would show
what they thought of the
entire problem of colonila-
isni-
No help
India did not want any
other country to help solve
the Goa problem.
"No power on earth can
stop today the human tide
of people in all depen
dent or semi-dependent
countries from breaking
all shackles of domina
tion," Mr. Nehru said.
He hoped the question of
French possessions in India
would be solved peacefully
"very soon," he said.
Of Pakistan, he said, "I
have repeatedly said we
want to live at peace with
Pakistan. We have no en
mity with Pakistan and we
consider the people of Pakis
tan our brothers."
Goa entered
Nineteen Goan demon
strators entered Goa at Poi-
lem late last night. Three
Portuguese police tried to
dissuade them but they
jumped the wall and were
last seen marching towards
Panjim carrying an Indian
flag
The demonstrators, led by
Anthony da Souza, general
secretary of the Goan Na
tional Congress, approached
the border after trekking
seven miles in the rain from
Karwar.
At the border, where a
barricade of stones and
barbed wire had been built
three armed Portuguese
police met them and warned
them they were crossing
into Portuguese territory.
They jumped over the
barricade, formed into a
double file and marched to
wards Panjim shouting anti-
Portuguese slogans.
Indian police late last
night arrested Ishverlal De-
sai, leader, of a group of In
dian Socialists, and all his
followers who attempted to
enter the Portuguese state
of Damao.
They sent back to Vapi. a
town near the border, more
than 1200 Socialists who
were to have taken part in
a demonstration at Damao.
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