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GA-01027 1953-06-10 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Steun gratieverzoek (Gerwis en de Rosenbergs)

Support for clemency appeal (Gerwis and the Rosenbergs)

Short Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra item (10 Jun 1953, p.2): the Indonesian women's movement Gerwis, with 40,000 members, sent a telegram to President Eisenhower urging him to spare the Rosenbergs; the dockworkers' union SBPP (47,000 members) decided on 8 June to send a similar telegram. Shows Gerwis's anti-imperialist s

GA-00865 1954-03-29 De Waarheid rel B

Indonesische zeelieden groeten vrouwencongres

Indonesian seamen greet the women's congress

De Waarheid, 29 Mar 1954, p. 3: short Rotterdam report that Indonesian seamen from the ships Waterman, Tomori, Tosari and Kota Gede and Rotterdam pilots, led by the SBPP union, held a joint meeting and adopted a resolution to send a greeting letter to the Gerwis congress in Jakarta. An unrelated earthquake note follows