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GA-00807 1949-04-25 De Waarheid rel C

Zware slag op Sumatra (Heavy battle in Sumatra; Paris peace congress speeches)

Heavy battle in Sumatra; speeches at Paris World Peace Congress

De Waarheid page (25 Apr 1949) with a report on fighting in Sumatra (Dutch landing at Indrapura, Republican scorched-earth) plus speeches from the Paris World Peace Congress. WIDF chair Eugénie Cotton says millions of women are fighting in China, Greece, Indonesia and Spain. No Indonesian women are named.

GA-00816 1950-06-02 De Waarheid rel C

Eugénie Cotton, Presidente van de IDVF, beschuldigd (WIDF president Eugénie Cotton accused)

WIDF president Eugenie Cotton accused over anti-war poster

Short De Waarheid item (2 Jun 1950): WIDF president Eugénie Cotton, also head of the Union of French Women, was accused over a poster urging French mothers not to let under-age sons enlist for Vietnam; the paper compares it to Dutch women's action against the Indonesian war and calls for protest letters. No Indonesian