Potentials of World Communism: Women's International Democratic Federation (OIR report, 1949)
OSS/State Department intelligence report (1 Aug 1949) on the Women's International Democratic Federation as a communist front: origins in the Soviet Anti-Fascist Committee of Women, 1945 Paris founding, leaders (Cotton, Popova, Ibarruri, Cai Chang), membership claims and Asia activities. Indonesia is mentioned only in
Beijing May Festivals Highlight Communist 'Peace' Campaign in Asia (1952)
State Department intelligence report (27 May 1952) on Beijing's May 1952 festivals and the Asia-Pacific peace conference preparations as part of the communist 'peace' campaign. Mentions the WIDF only as a precedent for earlier Beijing meetings (Nov-Dec 1949); no reference to Indonesia, Gerwis or Gerwani found.
Conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and WIDF President Eugenie Cotton, 1955
Chinese-language transcript (scan, noisy OCR; English translation read) of a conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and Eugenie Cotton, WIDF president, 22/23 May 1955 (Wilson Center Digital Archive). They discuss women's role in peace, the planned World Mothers' Congress in Paris, Franco-German reconciliation a
Transcript of Conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and Eugenie Cotton (WIDF), 23 May 1955
Wilson Center Digital Archive catalogue page (text only, no transcript) for the 23 May 1955 conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and WIDF president Eugenie Cotton, from Zhou Enlai Waijiao wenxuan (1990), pp. 140-148. The abstract notes Cotton's pleasure with her China visit, her call to unite women's federati
CIA directories, February 1957: International communist-front organizations (WIDF section)
CIA compilation of reference data (February 1957, data to 1 October 1956) on international communist-front organisations and friendship societies, including the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). The WIDF directory lists headquarters, publications, executive officers and national affiliates. Under Indo
CIA study, September 1958: The international communist fronts in 1958
CIA/US government study (September 1958) surveying the activities of the international Communist fronts (World Peace Council, Afro-Asian Solidarity Council, WFDY/IUS, WIDF, WFTU and others) in 1958. Chapter IV covers WIDF's Fourth Congress (Vienna, 1-5 June 1958) and secretariat. Gerwani appears only briefly: Suharti (
FBIS, 8 March 1960: Furtseva article hails Women's Day
FBIS-monitored Moscow text (8 Mar 1960) of Yekaterina Furtseva's Pravda article 'Women and the Building of Communism' for the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day: Marxist-Leninist emancipation theory, Soviet statistics on women in work, soviets and science, contrast with capitalist 'free world', peace and dis
JPRS 1963: Parjani Pradono criticises the WIDF programme (Moscow World Congress of Women)
Page from a US JPRS volume (Translations on the People's Republic of China, Oct-Nov 1963) summarising Chinese press reports on the June 1963 WIDF World Congress of Women in Moscow. Indonesian women's leader Parjani Pradono is quoted calling the WIDF programme 'devoid of revolutionary essence' and describing the Indones
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963: WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women
CIA Bi-Weekly Propaganda Guidance, 15 July 1963, on the Sino-Soviet clash at the WIDF Moscow World Congress of Women (June 1963). It quotes the Indonesian press of 9 July, per NCNA, carrying a statement by Maasje Siwi, general secretary of GERWANI, condemning the undemocratic handling of the congress and saying Gerwani
FBIS, 23 July 1963: Kim Ok-sun reports on Moscow WIDF parley
FBIS-monitored KCNA item (23 Jul 1963): Kim Ok-sun, first vice chair of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, reported to a Pyongyang meeting on the Moscow World Women's Congress, calling it a 'great blot' that ignored the anti-imperialist struggle and allowed an anti-Chinese racket. She lists the women's delegations of
The Sino-Soviet Conflict in the Fronts, Sept 1962-Dec 1963 (CIA study, 12 June 1964)
CIA Directorate of Intelligence staff study (ESAU XXV, OCI 1855/64, 12 June 1964, by Helen-Louise Hunter) on the Sino-Soviet conflict in the international front organisations, September 1962 to December 1963. It covers AAPSO at Moshi, the Djakarta journalists' and writers' conferences, and Chinese attempts to build riv