Impressive ceremony on the invasion beach (with item on Gerwani and the Union)
Het Vaderland front page (8 Jun 1954) opening with Dutch resistance veterans' wreath-laying at the Normandy invasion beaches, followed by Indonesian news. A short passage 'Indon. comm. women and the Union' says the Indonesian feminist movement Gerwani, recently hostess to delegations of communist women from Russia and
'Everything must go': great sale in Indonesia
Het Vaderland front-page report (22 Jan 1960) on Indonesia's economic collapse: rupiah worth a tenth of its 1958 black-market value, gold price soaring, kerosene shortages keeping Jakarta children from school, Chinese converting rupiah to goods, falling rubber output. Newspapers across the spectrum criticise Sukarno's
Sukarno uses an old recipe
Het Vaderland front-page report (4 Jun 1960): Sukarno returns from a world tour to an airport welcome whose approved slogans include 'Indonesian women condemn the Dutch provocation', which observers see as a diversion from the growing Democratic League opposing Guided Democracy. Also covers an Indonesian protest note a