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GA-00812 1949-12-05 De Waarheid rel C

Aziatische vakbondsconferentie geëindigd (Asian trade union conference ended)

Asian trade union conference ended in Peking

Short De Waarheid report (5 Dec 1949) on the close of the Asian trade-union conference in Peking, with resolutions and an appeal to Western workers including the Netherlands; WIDF spoke through Simone Bertrand, and gifts from Indonesia, Korea and Burma were presented. No Indonesian women named.

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-00817 1950-12-14 De Waarheid rel C

Het begon in Parijs: Vijf jaar IDVF (It began in Paris: five years of the WIDF)

It began in Paris: five years of the WIDF

De Waarheid retrospective (14 Dec 1950) on five years of the WIDF, founded in Paris in Dec 1945, describing its heroines and growth to 91 million members in 59 countries, the 1946 founding of the Dutch Women's Movement, the 1949 Asian women's conference in Peking and the Stockholm Appeal. Indonesian women are only name

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-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

GA-01251 1957-02-08 Java-Bode rel C

Expositie Aziatische mode (Exposition of Asian fashion)

Exposition of Asian fashion

Java-Bode, 8 February 1957, p. 2: report on an exposition of national costumes and music by Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asian women's organisations at the Plaza Hotel, New York; Indonesian participants included Sukanti Surjotjondro, Nelly Kawilarang and Sulami Sujud. A second snippet about a clandestine bank on Bangka is

GA-00963 1985-06-17 De Waarheid rel C

Potsdam (over de deling van Korea)

Potsdam (on the division of Korea)

De Waarheid piece (17 Jun 1985, p.5) on the origin of Korea's division at the 38th parallel after Potsdam and the Korean War. It recalls CPN opposition to Dutch participation and quotes Trees Sunito-Heyligers, who visited Korea in 1951 with a twenty-woman international delegation and wrote 'Wij beschuldigen'. No Indone