| Collection type | Library |
|---|---|
| Author | Barber, Laurie.; |
| Call Number | C 355.00994 W297 |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| Year | 1998 |
| Citation | Wartime : official magazine of the Australian War Memorial.: 1998, 4 |
| Pagination | 46-48 |
Tonga: the mouse that roared / by Laurie Barber.
Abstract
Until September 1939, Tonga had no need of an army, Tonga's 34,000 inhabitants situated in three island groups located 1,600 km north-east of New Zealand and about 5,000 km south-west of Hawaii, were indeed the Friendly Isles - an idyllic backwater Pacific paradise. But in 1939, when Britain went to war with Germany, Queen Salote Tupou III declared that all of Tonga's resources were at Britain's disposal.