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GA-01653 1959-04-03 Evening Post rel A

Hula Hoops 'Improper' (Evening Post, 3 April 1959)

Hula hoops 'improper' (Evening Post, 3 April 1959)

Evening Post (Wellington), 3 April 1959, UPI report 'Hula Hoops Improper': the Indonesian Women's Movement (probably Gerwani, though not named) urged the government to ban hula hoops as inconsistent with Eastern ethics and harmful to mental health, as Surabaya military authorities warned hooping children about decency.

GA-01654 1959-04-03 Evening Post rel A

Hula Hoops 'Improper' (Evening Post, 3 April 1959)

Hula hoops 'improper' (Evening Post, 3 April 1959), headline clipping

Headline-only clipping ('Hula Hoops Improper') of the Evening Post article of 3 April 1959 on the Indonesian Women's Movement's call for a hula hoop ban; no further text.

GA-01655 1959-04-03 Evening Post rel A

Hula Hoops 'Improper' (Evening Post, 3 April 1959)

Hula hoops 'improper' (Evening Post, 3 April 1959), article clipping

Article-body clipping from the Evening Post, 3 April 1959: the Indonesian Women's Movement urged Indonesia's government to ban hula hoops as contrary to Eastern ethics and harmful to mental health, as reported by UPI from Jakarta, alongside a Surabaya military warning on decency.

GA-02223 1959-07-11 Tages-Anzeiger rel B

Indonesien auf dem Weg zur Diktatur (Indonesia menuju diktator)

Tages-Anzeiger, 11 July 1959: Indonesia on the road to dictatorship

Tages-Anzeiger analysis (11 July 1959, signed Th. v. R.) of Sukarno's return to the 1945 constitution and the army's rising power under Nasution. Lists PKI-linked mass organisations, giving Gerwani 75,000 members alongside SOBSI, Pemuda Rakyat, BTI, and notes PKI's 1957 vote.

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