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GA-00822 1951-07-19 De Waarheid rel C

Amerikaanse opvoeding: gewelddadigheid voor kracht, sadisme normaal gevoel

American upbringing: violence as strength, sadism as normal feeling

De Waarheid, 19 Jul 1951, p. 5: editorial feature mocking US upbringing, drawing on a Saturday Evening Post painting of boys playing gunfights and a New York Times television study, and linking American media to atrocities in Korea as reported by the WIDF commission in which Trees Sunito-Heyligers took part. Cold War p

GA-02782 1952 rel C licensed

WIDF, 'For Their Rights as Mothers, Workers, Citizens' (1952)

WIDF pamphlet (Berlin, Dec 1952) surveying women's political rights, wages, unemployment, education, rural conditions and social protection country by country, and issuing the Call to the World Congress of Women (Denmark, June 1953). Indonesia appears briefly: equal rights on paper under the 1950 Constitution, no elect

GA-03368 1952-03-14 Berliner Zeitung rel C licensed

Berliner Zeitung, 14 March 1952, S. 2: „Die herrlichste Sache der Welt...“ Frauen aus fünf Ländern zum sowjetischen Friedensvertragsvorschlag

Berliner Zeitung, 14 Mar 1952, p. 2: 'The most glorious cause in the world' - women from five countries on the Soviet pe

Berliner Zeitung, 14 March 1952, p. 2: "Die herrlichste Sache der Welt...", a reception report in which women from five countries welcome the Soviet draft peace treaty for Germany. A young Indonesian woman, Darmini, about to return home, says Indonesia's people value cooperation with Germany and await the treaty. Indon

GA-03371 1953-01-16 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 16 Januar 1953, S. 2: Vorwärts zum Weltkongreß der Frauen 1953!

Neues Deutschland, 16 Jan 1953, p. 2: Forward to the 1953 World Congress of Women!

Neues Deutschland, 16 January 1953, p. 2. 'Vorwärts zum Weltkongreß der Frauen 1953!', a staff report on the DFD federal board session in Berlin where Elli Schmidt presented awards. Indonesia is a passing mention only: IDFF (WIDF) representatives from Czechoslovakia, Indonesia and the USA attended as a sign of solidari

GA-02833 1954 WIDF rel C licensed

Women are Demanding a Ban on Atomic Weapons (WIDF, 1954)

WIDF 1954 article compiling women's campaigns against atomic and hydrogen bombs after Bikini, with excerpts from Eugénie Cotton and the WIDF Executive appeal (Geneva). Countries covered include Britain, US, Japan, Germany, India; the Indonesia entry apparently refers to a national women's congress of 349 delegates dema

GA-03379 1955-12-03 Neues Deutschland rel C licensed

Neues Deutschland, 3 Dezember 1955, S. 1: Rechte der Frauen unantastbar

Neues Deutschland, 3 Dec 1955, p. 1: Women's rights inviolable

Neues Deutschland, 3 December 1955, p. 1. ADN report 'Rechte der Frauen unantastbar' on the festive rally for the 10th anniversary of the IDFF (WIDF) in the Deutsche Sporthalle, Berlin, with 3,000 women. Indonesia appears only in a list of countries whose WIDF representatives attended; no Indonesian is named and Gerwan

GA-02777 1956 rel C licensed

Laporan Mrs. Henry G. Fowler kepada Asia Foundation, 1956

Report of Mrs. Henry G. Fowler to the Asia Foundation, 1956

Two-page report submitted to the Asia Foundation in 1956 by Mrs Henry G. Fowler, chair of the American Committee of a women's group promoting US-Asian understanding through newsletters, UN reports, programmes and hospitality. Mentions an Asian-American discussion group including Indonesia and talks on Indonesian women'

GA-02778 1957 rel C licensed

Surat Helen Fowler kepada Emma Poeradiredja, 15 Februari 1957

Letter from Helen Fowler to Emma Poeradiredja, 15 February 1957

Letter from Helen Fowler to Emma Poeradiredja dated 15 February 1957, handwritten; OCR is almost entirely unreadable, so the summary rests on the title. It appears to be a friendly reply to Poeradiredja's January 1957 letter about Indonesian women's work and her planned US visit. Gerwani is not evident.