Not wishing to be part of an authoritarian Portugal, Goa and Goans had deserved the right to independence. Over 450 years of autonomous existence were more than sufficient to have the world respecting their right to sovereignty. Nehru's India thought otherwise and freedom was replaced by irrelevance. Had we been smarter, in Portugal, and such fate might have been avoided...
Nuno Cardoso da Silva
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2024 at 5:30 PM
From: "Roland Francis" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [GRN] DAY OF JOY
From: "Roland Francis" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GRN] DAY OF JOY
Thank you for that interesting addendum. I now realize the importance of that Declaration document.
Sometimes the demand for self-respect can be more powerful than that of any Act that proscribes it.
Roland Francis
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On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 11:56 PM John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote:
Roland,A small correction. The document mentioned in my article was not a letter. It was a declaration signed by the four democratically elected members of the Government Council. This declaration was approved unanimously by the Government Council in a session that took place on July 4, 1930, chaired by Governor Joao Carlos Craveiro Lopes. The document did not just reject the Acto Colonial. It asserted that we, Goans, do not give up our fundamental human right of self-determination. After he returned to Portugal, Governor Craveiro Lopes (father of future President of the Portuguese Republic Francisco Higinio Craveiro Lopes) publicly condemned the Acto Colonial, risking being disciplined by the military and sent to jail. (To my knowledge, this never happened.)John M. de FigueiredoSent from my iPhoneOn Jul 6, 2024, at 9:33 AM, Roland Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
Historically the letter of protest would have taken much courage and caused repercussion to its signatories, but are you sure it should have been a Day of Joy for Goans?It made no dent in Salazar’s thinking (although that was Salazar’s fault, not theirs) not was it responsible for the ultimate repeal of that Act, so what is it that we should be celebrating.Roland Francis
416-453-3371On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 8:03 AM JOHN DE FIGUEIREDO <[email protected]> wrote:Attached is an article that may be of interest.John M. de Figueiredo--
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