Women like you all: introducing the WIDF to Dutch readers
De Waarheid piece (1 Oct 1948) presenting the 80-million-member WIDF to Dutch readers as ordinary women including those in Indonesia, and quoting its appeal to women to demand arms reduction and ban atomic weapons. Indonesia appears only in a list of countries.
Our Strength: column on the WIDF Council in Moscow
De Waarheid column "Our Strength" by L.B. (25 Nov 1949) on the WIDF Council meeting in Moscow (15-20 Nov) and the 1948 Budapest congress, reflecting on women's unity and the daily struggle of a Dutch communist housewife. Indonesia appears only in a list of women's liberation struggles.
Gerben Wagenaar: United we can stop the war (International Women's Day, Amsterdam)
De Waarheid, 10 Mar 1952, p. 1: report on International Women's Day demonstration of 5,000 in Amsterdam, organised with the NVB, with speeches and a WIDF greeting, demands for peace and release of Piet van Staveren, and a 'Sinar Indonesia' dance performance. Gerben Wagenaar speaks. No Gerwani members; shows Dutch commu
Anything was allowed because it was so warm: commemoration of ten-year Indonesian Republic
Het Parool page item (26 Aug 1955) combining a report on an Amsterdam evening commemorating ten years of the Indonesian Republic, chaired by Prof. Wertheim (committee includes Ch. Caropeboka; speakers Berg, Romein, Geugjes and Indonesian chargé Sjarif), and unrelated heatwave photo captions. Five principles include neg
'Don't go - don't go - peace with Indonesia' (Annie Gelok on the Schoonhoven refusers)
De Waarheid feature (19 Aug 1982) in which Annie Gelok recalls NVB women's solidarity with Dutch conscripts who refused service in Indonesia (Schoonhoven refusers, 1949), the Zuiderkruis embarkation, Heiltje de Vos's 'Vrede met Indonesië' banner, and campaigns for Piet van Staveren and Ratio Koster. It touches an IDFF/