De Waarheid report (29 Dec 1948) on the second WIDF congress in Budapest (1-6 Dec, 600+ women, 54 countries), framed as a Soviet-led peace front against "Anglo-American imperialism". Dutch Labour women are chided over the colonial war in Indonesia; Indonesian women are not among the delegates named.
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
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
Pravda p. 3, 22 July 1952: TASS reports from the 13th session of the WIDF executive committee in Bucharest and a mass women's meeting addressed by Eugenie Cotton. Darmini (Indonesia) is listed among debaters on Carmen Santi's report on child defence; national committees reportedly formed in Indonesia. Content of Darmin
Article by Sulami (1959) reporting on the WIDF Bureau meeting in Prague, chaired by Eugenie Cotton, and the Council with 51 countries. It stresses women's duty to protect children, supports disarmament and Soviet-US talks, backs the 50th anniversary of International Women's Day, and links peace to Indonesian national i
November 1961 issue: a report on torture of women political prisoners in South Vietnam, a Heroes Day essay linking Indonesia to Algeria, Angola, Congo and Cuba, and peace letters between Ratu Aminah Hidajat and Nina Popova.
Api Kartini (1961) exchange of open letters on peace between Ny. A. Hidayat, a leader of the Indonesian peace committee, and Nina Popova of the Soviet women's movement, about nuclear tests, disarmament and the Soviet space flights of Gagarin and Titov. The page also carries a mother's letter to school-age children. Pea
Hungarian provincial daily Tolna Megyei Népújság, 6 Oct 1961, reporting the WIDF Council session in Budapest. Mrs Mudigdio, chair of Gerwani, is quoted saying that the liberation of oppressed Asian and African peoples is hindered by the same forces opposing a German peace treaty. Other delegates (Kushida, Cotton, Popov
Pravda no. 182, 1 July 1963 (full issue). Page 4 prints the WIDF programme adopted at its Moscow congress (29 June 1963): equal rights, peasant women, children, peace, national independence, solidarity with persecuted women. It lists the new Bureau, which includes Umi Sardjono (Indonesia, spelled 'Umisa Sardjono'). Eug
Chinese-published pamphlet (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1963) with statements and a report by Yang Yun-yu attacking Soviet and WIDF leaders at the June 1963 Moscow World Congress of Women over anti-imperialism versus disarmament and peaceful coexistence. It records the Indonesian delegation, led by Umi Sardjono, s
FBIS-monitored Xinhua report (18 Jul 1963): a 10,000-strong Peking rally welcomed the Chinese delegation back from the Moscow World Congress of Women. Yang Yun-yu's report attacked Soviet delegation leader Popova and WIDF leaders for 'sectarianism, splittism and big-power chauvinism', calling the congress 'undemocratic
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
Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1964, pp. 2-8: mostly a feature on the Minsk Tractor Works, a Soviet-American women's conference report by Lydia Kislova, and the opening of a Kartini profile, which tells of her 'pingitan' seclusion and quotes Indonesian ambassador Manai Sophiaan on Kartini Day (21 April). Gerwani is not mentioned
Soviet Woman, 30 Apr 1965, p. 18: Nina Voronina's 'Till we meet again', on a three-week USSR tour (Moscow, Riga, Leningrad, Dushanbe) by a five-woman KOWANI delegation: Basariah Simorangkir, Sidi Moehammad (WANI), Ani Boesiri, Ratjih Natawidjaja, Mimi Soeparmi, with Hurustiati Subandrio in Moscow. Left a message in the
Francisca de Haan's article (German, Feministische Studien 2009) on the WIDF's early years 1945-50: founding congress in Paris, leaders Cotton, Ibarruri and Popova, and the destruction of the US affiliate by HUAC. Background on the federation Gerwani later joined.
Yulia Gradskova's 2019 article, from Soviet WIDF archives (GARF), on how far the WIDF's anti-colonial stance gave women from Africa, Asia and Latin America real voice in the late 1950s-mid 1960s; internal documents show a Europe- and Soviet-dominated agenda. Context for Gerwani's WIDF role.