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Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 September 1940Vol. XI, No. 2

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Vol. Xi. No. 2.

September 14, 1940

Established 1930

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ACTION A scene in a Tongan village, where young Polynesian men practise military exercises under the direction of British drill instructors.

Here is something neither understood nor appreciated by Hitler, who has only three times been outside Germany (once to Rome, and twice, recently, to Paris) —namely, the steadily-growing military might of the millions of people in the British Empire, who are willing and eager to fight for the freedom and security they so long have enjoyed under the Union Jack. —Photo by Hettig.