Api Kartini preview of the WIDF Bureau meeting due in Indonesia (early 1960), profiling its leaders: President Eugenie Cotton, Secretary-General Carmen Zanti, Marie Ange, Beatrice Johnson and Asian-African vice-presidents. Notes WIDF's support for Indonesian independence and condemnation of Dutch aggression, and that G
Neue Zeit, 9 February 1960, p. 1: the page is headlined by the GDR industrial exhibition in Iraq; a small item 'Ilse Thiele über Welle Djakarta' reports that DFD chair Ilse Thiele spoke on Indonesian radio about the GDR women's struggle for peace, having attended a WIDF [bureau] meeting in Jakarta. Short news item; Ger
Berliner Zeitung, 13 February 1960, p. 5: short ADN/EB item 'Zwischenaufenthalt in Burma'. DFD chair Ilse Thiele, returning from Indonesia where she attended the WIDF (IDFF) bureau session and the Indonesian Peace Congress, stopped briefly in Rangoon and discussed the position of women in the GDR with the Burmese parli