Short Het Nieuwsblad voor Sumatra item (10 Jun 1953, p.2): the Indonesian women's movement Gerwis, with 40,000 members, sent a telegram to President Eisenhower urging him to spare the Rosenbergs; the dockworkers' union SBPP (47,000 members) decided on 8 June to send a similar telegram. Shows Gerwis's anti-imperialist s
Xinhua roundup in Renmin Ribao, 14 June 1953 (p. 4), on the worldwide campaign to save Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from execution: US court rejections, New York rallies, and protests in Canada and Europe, including a resolution by the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen. The only Indonesian reference: SOBSI, the Gerwi
Xinhua roundup in Renmin Ribao, 14 June 1953 (p. 4), on the worldwide campaign to save Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from execution: US court rejections, New York rallies, and protests in Canada and Europe, including a resolution by the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen. The only Indonesian reference: SOBSI, the Gerwi
Neues Deutschland, 15 April 1954, p. 5: under the headline "Radioaktive Wolken über Mexiko", a roundup of ADN items on US hydrogen-bomb tests includes a Djakarta item: the national conference of the Indonesian women's movement appealed to the world's peoples to avert the H-bomb threat and secure lasting peace, alongsid
Tribune (Sydney), 13 Oct 1954, p. 11: letters page covering SEATO, Eisenhower, Pakistan, housing and criticisms of Tribune. One letter claims Indonesia, India, Ceylon and Burma's abstention from SEATO shows Asian peoples want peace and independence; another praises the Union of Australian Women journal 'Our Women'. No
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
Api Kartini item (1961), a review of Nguyen Xuan Tram's book 'Hell on Earth' on South Vietnamese women prisoners under Ngo Dinh Diem, including mothers jailed with infants and tortured. It ends by condemning planned US military intervention (General Maxwell Taylor's mission) as a threat to peace in Southeast Asia. Gerw