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...symbol of unity at New Delhi was remote, the communal hatred that had forced the partition now faced was real enough. On both sides of the new dividing line, between Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost...
Queen Salote, 45, towering (6 ft. 3 in.) ruler of the Central Pacific's tiny Tonga Islands, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. The Empire's only other queen besides Elizabeth, she aided the Allied cause with a 500-strong handful of native warriors, some $500,000, and two Spitfires...
This week I have good news for Subscriber Brown and his friends on Raiatea-and for nearly 3,800 other TIME readers on the other side of the world. For this week subscribers all over the South Pacific-in Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, the Tonga and the Society and the Friendly Islands, New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia-will start getting our Pacific Edition by air from Honolulu, instead of our Overseas Edition by ship all the way from San Francisco...
There's a fine array of hot music that had most of the audience tapping its feet and wiggling around in its chairs. The first part is native rars tonga and what not, punctuated with plenty of staccato drum beating. The second part is mostly American songs, including "Kansas City Blues" and "Dark Town Strutters Hall...
...some ways, it is the strangest medical school in the world. Many of the students are only one generation removed from cannibalism. They are Fijians, Maoris (from New Zealand), Samoans, natives of the Solomon, Cook, New Hebrides, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and a few East Indians...