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GA-02618 1949-08-01 rel C licensed

Potentials of world communism: Women's International Democratic Federation (OIR report, 1949)

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

GA-02641 1955-05-23 rel B

周恩来、邓颖超与国际民主妇联主席科东夫人谈话 (Conversation between Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and WIDF President Eugenie Cotton), 1955

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

GA-02957 2012 rel B licensed

The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF): History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991

The WIDF: History, Main Agenda, and Contributions, 1945-1991 (de Haan, c.2012)

Overview essay by Francisca de Haan (Women and Social Movements International database, c. 2012) on WIDF's origins, agenda, UN role and Cold War marginalisation, 1945-1991. Gerwani is listed once as a large, influential WIDF member organisation (with footnotes to Wieringa and to McGregor on Indonesian women and WIDF);