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GA-00816 1950-06-02 De Waarheid rel C

Eugénie Cotton, Presidente van de IDVF, beschuldigd (WIDF president Eugénie Cotton accused)

WIDF president Eugenie Cotton accused over anti-war poster

Short De Waarheid item (2 Jun 1950): WIDF president Eugénie Cotton, also head of the Union of French Women, was accused over a poster urging French mothers not to let under-age sons enlist for Vietnam; the paper compares it to Dutch women's action against the Indonesian war and calls for protest letters. No Indonesian

GA-00849 1953-06-10 De Waarheid rel B

Het Derde Wereld Vrouwen Congres: 1700 gedelegeerden van ruim 80 landen te Kopenhagen bijeen

The Third World Women's Congress: 1,700 delegates from over 80 countries in Copenhagen

De Waarheid, 10 Jun 1953, p. 5: air-mail report from Copenhagen on the Third World Congress of Women (WIDF): 1,700 delegates from over 80 countries, opened by Eugenie Cotton, with speeches by Chinese and Soviet delegates and a Dutch delegate. Delegates from Korea, Malaya and Vietnam were refused entry. Indonesian deleg