Mrs Lips Odinot on the Union
Java-Bode, 27 March 1954, p. 2: Rie Lips Odinot, chair of the Dutch Women's Movement and Communist MP, in Jakarta for the second Gerwis congress, tells Aneta it is Indonesia's right to decide its form of relations with the Netherlands, regarding the government's note proposing revision of the Netherlands-Indonesian Uni
The Irian question
Java-Bode, 5 April 1954, p. 2: Rie Lips Odinot, a Gerwis congress guest, conveys Dutch peace-lovers' sympathy to Sukarno, who replies that good Dutch-Indonesian relations are impossible until West Irian is returned to Indonesia, calling it the greatest political barrier.
President receives Gerwani: 'Men and women must build the state together'
Java-Bode, 5 April 1954, p. 2: President Sukarno and his wife received Gerwani (formerly Gerwis) members at the end of their five-day Jakarta congress. Sukarno said the just and prosperous state cannot be built by one sex alone, and that women's problems are solved not by equal rights alone but by that state, which men