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Since its independence, India had faced the ultraconservative colonial policy of Portugal's leader, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who was determined to keep his Goanese possessions which had been established on the subcontinent since 1510. Therefore, for fourteen years Portugal organized its resistance along the lines of the pacifist principles of Nehru's foreign policy, with the support of the Western powers which did not accept Indian non-alignment in a bipolar world. The affirmation of the decolonization movement by the end of the fifties nevertheless convinced Nehru, who no longer had arguments to do otherwise, to send his army against Goa, on the 18th of December of 1961. This article aims to analyze the violence of international reactions to this symbolic military action that soiled forever the Pandit's moral authority in the West, as well as underlining the fragility of the UN system in a world in crisis. Adapted from the source document.