Api Kartini (early 1963) article marking four years of the Cuban Revolution, stressing Cuban women's heroism (Federation of Cuban Women head Vilma Espin) and their gains in literacy and work, then turning to the revolutionary struggle in Venezuela against Betancourt, in which women are urged to take part. Solidarity pr
Soviet Woman, 31 Jul 1963, p. 44: WIDF programme adopted at its 1963 Moscow World Congress of Women, with an issue preview and the list of elected leaders. Eugenie Cotton re-elected president. Umi Sardjono (Indonesia) is named among Bureau members, with Freda Brown (Australia), Vilma Espin and others.
Neues Deutschland, 28 October 1964, p. 1: ADN dispatch from Sofia, headed 'Ilse Thiele neue IDFF-Vizepräsidentin'. At the end of the WIDF council session DFD chair Ilse Thiele was elected one of four new vice-presidents; Freda Brown (Australia), Vilma Espín (Cuba) and Umi Sardjono (Indonesia) were confirmed in the post