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
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
Short FBIS item from TASS (8 Jun 1964): the Liaison Bureau Presidium set up at the 1960 Copenhagen women's meeting opened in Moscow (8-12 June) with Eugenie Cotton (WIDF), Popova (Soviet women's committee), and Hurustiati Subandrio, chairman of the Indonesian women's congress (Kowani), among others. Context for Indones