Word: turk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adolphe, who afterwards taught young Raymond Westerling in Istanbul's French Catholic St. Joseph school, recalled that he was "a mild, well-mannered, moon-faced little boy." Raymond's later development was not what Frére Adolphe might have expected: he became the notorious "Turk" Westerling, a reckless, ruthless professional soldier and a fanatical Moslem...
...November, with his club floundering badly it became necessary for dapper little Conny Smythe to throw his weight (165 Ibs.) around. Like Little Lord Fauntleroy gone amuck, he lit into his blubbery, 197-lb. goalie, Turk Broda, and ordered him to melt down to 190, or else. He benched Broda, threatened to bench four others...
...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...
...Lake Success, an Indonesian spokesman charged that the Dutch were partially responsible for Westerling's raids. The Dutch stoutly denied the charges. Meanwhile, Turk Westerling blandly predicted that a new civil war was about to break out in West Java, from which he would emerge the winner. This was unlikely, but Westerling's bands could fan the dying embers of Indonesia-Dutch resentment and suspicion. First task of the U.S.I, army would be to finish off Turk Westerling...