Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wave from the Left. Since Macleod belongs to the young Turk Tory faction led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, Churchill carefully balanced the appointment by making one of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's proteges Colonial Minister: Henry Hopkinson, a handsome ex-Foreign Office man with an American wife. To complete the reshuffle, Churchill sent the outgoing Colonial Minister, Right-Winger Alan Lennox Boyd, to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, to replace John Maclay, who resigned after being sent to a sickbed by a job that was too much...
...first six months have made 49-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the "young Turk of Toryism," the fastest-growing man in the Conservative Party. His budget, a brave one, shapes up already as the outstanding success of the half-year. The drain on Britain's lifeblood, the dollar reserves, was slowed and the gap between dollars spent and dollars earned was closed last month to $71 million, chiefly as a result of Butler measures...
...Turk's Private War. The cops pulled their prey into daylight and eyed him warily. "Have you a gun?" one asked. The man coyly examined himself, peeked inside his undershirt with a smile. "No," he said. The cops let their man dress and breakfast on ham & eggs, then carted him off triumphantly to Amsterdam. At last they had captured the notorious Captain Raymond ("Turk") Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune...
...nearly two years Turk Westerling had been a fugitive from his own countrymen, and from the Indonesian Republic-wanted by both for homicide and other crimes committed in Indonesia after the islands won their independence from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold...
Back to the Dishes. In Amsterdam the day after his capture, Turk Westerling appeared before Magistrate Johannes Knottenbelt, apparently quite resigned to a stretch in prison. The magistrate blandly ruled that there were no grounds for holding Turk Westerling, and freed him on his promise to the cops that he would not go back into hiding. The Netherlands' Minister of Justice promptly protested the ruling. But with police trailing him at a discreet distance, the buccaneer swaggered to freedom-at least for the present...