If the below information is correct than it contradicts what Adlai Stevenson the US ambassador to the UN said about the invasion of 1961. BC 00:3700:46 - Stevenson, Adlai E. Stevenson's speech at the United Nations following the vote on Goa. He declares that the failure of the Security Council to demand a cease fire is a failure of the United Nations12-19-1961Stevenson's speech at the United Nations following the vote on Goa. He declares that the failure of the Security Council to demand a cease fire is a failure of the United Nations.
The US had tactically given the green signal to India. Though it was bound to help Portugal under the NATO clause, US never that Portugal was on the wrong foot. Kennedy and Nehru were close and the in-between role played was by US ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith, who by the way was a Canadian. The Harvard economist has given some of his thoughts in his Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years. Eugene
