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GA-00804 1949-03-05 De Waarheid rel C

Vrouwen, demonstreert Dinsdag voor Vrede! (Women, demonstrate on Tuesday for peace!)

Women, demonstrate on Tuesday for peace: International Women's Day call 1949

De Waarheid call (5 Mar 1949) for Dutch women to demonstrate on International Women's Day for peace: against the colonial war in Indonesia, the Marshall Plan and Atlantic Pact, for troop withdrawal and equal pay, with Soviet women held up as models and WIDF president Cotton quoted. Concerns Dutch communist women; no In

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-00811 1949-11-25 De Waarheid rel C

Onze Kracht (Our Strength)

Our Strength: column on the WIDF Council in Moscow

De Waarheid column "Our Strength" by L.B. (25 Nov 1949) on the WIDF Council meeting in Moscow (15-20 Nov) and the 1948 Budapest congress, reflecting on women's unity and the daily struggle of a Dutch communist housewife. Indonesia appears only in a list of women's liberation struggles.

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