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GA-00610 1950-08-14 De Locomotief rel C

'Vredes'-betoging in Medan (Peace demonstration in Medan)

'Peace' demonstration in Medan

De Locomotief, 14 Aug 1950 (Aneta): about 5,000 attend a Medan peace-committee rally, mainly plantation, peasant and pedicab unions, with anti-American banners. Speakers include Tuti Rukmi for 'Indonesian women'. The resolution urges Indonesia not to join the 'imperialist war' in Korea and calls for a ban on atomic wea

GA-02825 1951-01 WIDF rel C

Femmes du monde entier, No. 50, janvier 1951 (FDIF, Berlin)

Femmes du monde entier no. 50, January 1951

Femmes du monde entier no. 50, January 1951, the French-language WIDF bulletin issued from Berlin. Editorial and reports urge women to back the Second World Peace Congress's address to the UN: Korea, Formosa and Vietnam, banning mass-destruction weapons, colonial oppression (Madagascar, Vietnam, South Africa), war prop

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-03571 1951-08-14 Somogyi Néplap rel C

Somogyi Néplap, 14 August 1951: WIDF Korea commission, Trees Soenito Heyligers

Hungarian-language press, 1951: WIDF Korea commission, Trees Soenito Heyligers

Hungarian county daily Somogyi Néplap, 14 Aug 1951 (snippet only). Lists the officers of the WIDF commission on Korea: the secretary from Czechoslovakia and, as deputy, Trees Soenito Heyligers of the Netherlands. The catalogue treats her as the Trees Sunito later named as Njono's defence counsel; that identification, a

GA-02827 1952 WIDF rel C licensed

Message to the Executive Committee of the WIDF (1952): Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive message 1952: Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive Committee message (1952) calling women worldwide to prepare for the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna, 5 December 1952, and to demand an end to the Korean war, arms reduction, banning of atomic and bacteriological weapons, and a Pact of Peace. Signatories include Eugénie Cotton and others; Darmin

GA-02440 1953-03-04 rel C licensed

Labor Party Cites Women's Efforts (FBIS, 4 Mar 1953)

FBIS, 4 March 1953: Labor Party cites women's efforts (Korean Workers' Party decision for International Women's Day)

FBIS-monitored Pyongyang radio text (4 Mar 1953) of a Korean Workers' Party Central Committee decision for International Women's Day: praises Korean women in the war, calls for wartime production and vigilance. One line lists the 'awakened democratic women of India, Indonesia' and others in the WIDF-led struggle (WIDF

GA-00886 1956-03-19 De Waarheid rel C

Lilly Wachter (portret, De Waarheid 19-3-1956)

Lilly Wachter portrait: West German delegate at the Dutch Women's Movement congress

De Waarheid, 19 Mar 1956, p. 3: profile of Lilly Wachter (West Germany), attending the NVB congress for the WIDF. Recalls the 1951 WIDF commission to Korea, in which Trees Sunito-Heyligers represented the NVB, and how Wachter was jailed 25 days and fined 12,000 marks after signing its report blaming US forces. Sunito a