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...troublemaker was a part-Dutch, part-Turkish adventurer, named Raymond Paul Rocco ("Turk") Westerling, a professional soldier with a checkered past. Dashing Westerling fought with Australian troops in North Africa in 1940, later with the Dutch underground in Holland. After the war he helped organize a special Dutch force which was accused of murdering thousands of Celebes islanders during mopping-up operations. Kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, he began to recruit an army of his own, now estimated at close to 10,000 Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army...
...Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...
Last week, three and a half centuries later, 1,500 Dutch immigrants were on their way to Sydney on the liner Volendam. The last of some 13,000 who left Holland in 1949, they were looking only for land, for Holland is crowded to the dikes with energetic Dutchmen. With the highest birth rate in Western Europe, and the lowest death rate in the world, Holland has doubled its population in the last 50 years, now has 10 million people for an area little larger than Maryland. Grumbled a Rotterdam cab driver: "This country gets...
...Holland's farmers, expanding industry is just one more problem: as fast as they reclaim fertile land from lakes, marshes and sea, the land-hungry Dutch find other acres swallowed up by growing cities, new roads and airfields. Farmers lucky enough to find land are often caught without a market. One of them, 49-year-old Truck Farmer Simon Eygenraam, summed up their problem: "Look, we Dutchmen together produce much more than the home market needs, and we export, mostly to Britain and Germany. But we're hampered by trade restrictions and quotas . . . I cannot get foreign currency...
...Some, like Harrie Lamers and his twelve children who headed homeward last week after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must be opportunities for people like us die niet bang zijn voor hard werk [who are not afraid to work hard], and at least we won't be crowded out of a living. Sure...