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GA-00663 1947-03-04 De Nieuwe Nederlander rel C

Een luguber plan (A gruesome plan)

A gruesome plan: WIDF council delegation received in Prague

De Nieuwe Nederlander, 4 Mar 1947: the column criticises a plan for cheap letter-sheets for Dutch soldiers in Indonesia, and includes a brief note that the Dutch delegation (Mrs Nolles-Odinot and Mrs Nolles-Heuff) to the WIDF council in Prague was received by Mrs Beneš. The Indonesia link is the colonial war context; n

GA-00269 1954-04-30 Southern Cross rel C

Communist Meetings 1954 Programme (Southern Cross, 30 Apr 1954)

Communist Meetings 1954 Programme (Southern Cross, 30 April 1954)

Southern Cross (Adelaide), 30 April 1954, p. 16, anti-communist piece listing 'Communist-sponsored' international meetings for the coming year. Only a passing reference touches the field: an International Children's Defence Day under the WIDF, and a World Peasant Youth Congress expected in Jakarta in November. A separa

GA-00479 1959-11-06 Algemeen Dagblad rel C

Moskou's opmars (Kemajuan Moskow)

Moscow's advance

Algemeen Dagblad (1959-11-06, p. 7): second part of Allen W. Dulles's essay on Soviet and Chinese economic and subversive penetration of developing countries. Lists Indonesia among arms recipients and names the WIDF, with trade-union, youth and peace bodies, as a communist 'front organisation'. Cold War framing context

GA-01064 1961-10-23 Het Parool rel C

Socialisten in Rome bijeen (Internationale raad van socialistische vrouwen)

Socialists meet in Rome (International Council of Socialist Women)

Short Het Parool report (23 Oct 1961) from Rome on meetings preceding the Socialist International congress: exiled East European socialists protest Russification, and the International Council of Socialist Women elects Dutch Rita de Bruyn-Ouboter president, succeeding Mary Sutherland. Indonesian delegate Djoesma Said c

GA-00993 1965-10-28 Friese Koerier OnafhankelijK Dagblad Voor Friesland En Aangrenzende Gebieden rel C

Wereldpresidente mevrouw Van Beekhoff is weer thuis (ACWW)

World president Mrs Van Beekhoff is home again (ACWW)

Friese Koerier profile (28 Oct 1965, p.15) of Geerda van Beekhoff-van Selms, outgoing world president of the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), recounting her travels, congresses and the non-political, no-communist-members policy of ACWW. Indonesian women appear only as donors of a Yogyakarta silver dish. No

GA-01067 1986-10-30 Het Parool rel C

'Geen lijfkwesties, ze verwijten 't ons nog' (40 jaar Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging)

'No body issues, they reproach us for it': 40 years of the Dutch Women's Movement

Het Parool feature by Petra van Alten (30 Oct 1986) on the 40th anniversary of the Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging (NVB): founding in 1946 from Algemene Vrouwenbonden and resistance women, its protests against Dutch Indonesia policy and troop sailings, Cold War isolation, affiliation to the Women's International Democratic