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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-00675 1952-05-19 De Nieuwsgier rel A

Mevrouw Roosevelt ontkent beweringen van de Gerwis (Mrs Roosevelt denies Gerwis's allegations)

Mrs Roosevelt denies Gerwis's allegations of bacteriological warfare

De Nieuwsgier, 19 May 1952: Eleanor Roosevelt, replying to a Gerwis letter handed to her in Jakarta in late April, rejects its allegations of UN bacteriological warfare in Korea and suppression of a people's freedom, and the claim that the West drove a million Arabs from their homes. Third press version of this exchang

GA-00590 1952-05-27 Arnhemsche Courant rel A

Mrs. Roosevelt did not agree (Mevrouw Roosevelt het niet eens)

Mrs. Roosevelt did not agree

Arnhemsche Courant, 27 May 1952: a short item reports Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, during her Jakarta visit, to a letter from Gerwis. She rejected its claims that the UN used bacteriological weapons in Korea and suppressed peoples, and denied the US drove a million Arabs from their homes. Shows Gerwis's Cold War peace st

GA-00677 1952-06-27 De Nieuwsgier rel B

Delegatie naar VS-ambassade om te protesteren tegen bacterie-oorlog (Delegation to US embassy)

Delegation to US embassy protests bacteriological war in Korea

De Nieuwsgier, 27 June 1952 (Sin Po): on the Korean War anniversary, a nine-organisation delegation including Gerwis, SOBSI, Pemuda Rakjat, Lekra and the peace committee protests at the US embassy against alleged bacteriological warfare, but is turned away. They write to the foreign minister asking Indonesia to press f

GA-00833 1952-07-03 De Waarheid rel B

Indonesië toont solidariteit met strijdend Korea

Indonesia shows solidarity with fighting Korea

De Waarheid, 3 Jul 1952, p. 5: dispatch on Indonesian solidarity with Korea on the war's second anniversary. A 17-person delegation of the Indonesian Peace Committee, including Francisca Fanggidaej, visited the US embassy in Jakarta to protest killings of women and children; Ambassador Cochran refused to receive them,

GA-01027 1953-06-10 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel A

Steun gratieverzoek (Gerwis en de Rosenbergs)

Support for clemency appeal (Gerwis and the Rosenbergs)

Short Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra item (10 Jun 1953, p.2): the Indonesian women's movement Gerwis, with 40,000 members, sent a telegram to President Eisenhower urging him to spare the Rosenbergs; the dockworkers' union SBPP (47,000 members) decided on 8 June to send a similar telegram. Shows Gerwis's anti-imperialist s

GA-01029 1953-07-03 Het Nieuwsblad Voor Sumatra rel B

De kleine wereld (nieuwsrubriek, met bericht over Gerwis en de Rosenbergs)

The small world (news column, with item on Gerwis and the Rosenbergs)

Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra news-in-brief column 'De kleine wereld' (3 Jul 1953, p.4). Among items on a pharmacy strike, a journalist's film censored, a Guatemala explosion and Dusseldorf baby names, one notes that the Indonesian women's movement GERWIS urged the US government, via its Jakarta embassy, to guarantee the

GA-01128 1953-07-15 Indische Courant Voor Nederland rel B

Nieuws uit Indonesië, 15 juli 1953 (Gerwis and the Rosenberg children)

News from Indonesia, 15 July 1953 (Gerwis and the Rosenberg children)

Local news column, Indische Courant voor Nederland, 15 Jul 1953, p. 3. Only relevant item: Gerwis urged the American government, via the US embassy in Jakarta, to guarantee the welfare of the two Rosenberg children. Other items concern a lost copra boat and Mount Sumbing.

GA-01241 1956-03-13 Java-Bode rel A

Bezwaren tegen bezoek (Objections to visit)

Objections to visit

Java-Bode, 13 March 1956, p. 1: before John Foster Dulles's Jakarta visit, the Gerwani central board issued a statement objecting to the visit, to his interference in Indonesia's internal affairs and to his pressure on Indonesia to join SEATO, after studying US interventionism in Latin America and Asia.

GA-01306 1956-03-13 Nieuwe Tilburgsche Courant rel B

Economische hulp aan Indonesië aangeboden (Economic aid offered to Indonesia; Dulles in Jakarta)

Economic aid offered to Indonesia (Dulles in Jakarta)

Nieuwe Tilburgsche Courant, 13 March 1956: report on US Secretary of State Dulles's visit to Jakarta, where about two dozen demonstrators shouted 'Abolish SEATO' and a young woman of the left-leaning Gerwani threw a paper at his car and was detained for questioning. Dulles also met Sukarno, discussed New Guinea and off

GA-01319 1956-03-13 Nieuwsblad Van Het Zuiden rel B

H.C. afwezig bij aankomst Dulles (High Commissioner absent at Dulles's arrival)

High Commissioner absent at Dulles's arrival

Nieuwsblad van het Zuiden, 13 March 1956: report on Dulles's arrival in Jakarta (no Dutch high commissioner present), his statement, and an airport incident in which a young Gerwani woman threw a paper at his car and was detained. Also Sukarno's accepted invitation to the US and discussion of New Guinea and economic ai

GA-00892 1958-03-24 De Waarheid rel A

Protest tegen SEATO

Protest against SEATO: Gerwani letter to the US embassy

De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1958, p. 1: short item that Gerwani, on behalf of its 650,000 members, sent a letter to the US embassy in Jakarta asking for SEATO's dissolution and protesting American interference after Washington asked to deploy paratroopers to protect US citizens in the Pekanbaru oil area during the government o

GA-00936 1975-06-21 De Waarheid rel B

Stop steun aan Suharto-regiem

Stop support for the Suharto regime

De Waarheid, 21 Jun 1975, p. 5: boxed text 'Stop support for the Suharto regime' from the NVB monthly 'Vrouwen': the IGGI group (US, Japan, West Germany, Netherlands) gives up to 880 million dollars yearly to the regime; its April meeting was postponed amid confusion over Indochina; Suharto fears liberation victories.