Word: tongas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PIERRE Louis MARIE CHANEL (1803-41), a French missionary who was sent to the South Sea island of Futuna in the Tonga archipelago, where he was axed to death after three years, at the age of 38. Though he had achieved no marked success in converting the natives, the entire island, moved by his martyrdom, became Roman Catholic within three years of his death...
...monarchy that all Britons feel safer when their sovereign is home in England. During the 174 days during which she had traveled by land, sea and air more than 40,000 miles, Elizabeth's subjects in Australia, in Ceylon, in the British West Indies, even in tiny Tonga (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.), had made it plain that they considered her their Queen as well as Britain's, and that they hoped to see more of her in the future...
Captain Houot is confident that the FNRS 3 could have dived much deeper; he would like to take her into the deepest places in the world's oceans, such as the 34,000-ft. trench between New Zealand and the Tonga Islands. The FNRS 3 is theoretically able to stand the pressure of 52,000 ft. of sea water, but for the sake of prudence, a new and stronger bathyscaphe would be required for this ultimate dive...
...Tonga was (and is) a soldier's paradise I recommend it as a haven to ... nonartistic escapists...
...boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...