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GA-00610 1950-08-14 De Locomotief rel C

'Vredes'-betoging in Medan (Peace demonstration in Medan)

'Peace' demonstration in Medan

De Locomotief, 14 Aug 1950 (Aneta): about 5,000 attend a Medan peace-committee rally, mainly plantation, peasant and pedicab unions, with anti-American banners. Speakers include Tuti Rukmi for 'Indonesian women'. The resolution urges Indonesia not to join the 'imperialist war' in Korea and calls for a ban on atomic wea

GA-02825 1951-01 WIDF rel C

Femmes du monde entier, No. 50, janvier 1951 (FDIF, Berlin)

Femmes du monde entier no. 50, January 1951

Femmes du monde entier no. 50, January 1951, the French-language WIDF bulletin issued from Berlin. Editorial and reports urge women to back the Second World Peace Congress's address to the UN: Korea, Formosa and Vietnam, banning mass-destruction weapons, colonial oppression (Madagascar, Vietnam, South Africa), war prop

GA-00822 1951-07-19 De Waarheid rel C

Amerikaanse opvoeding: gewelddadigheid voor kracht, sadisme normaal gevoel

American upbringing: violence as strength, sadism as normal feeling

De Waarheid, 19 Jul 1951, p. 5: editorial feature mocking US upbringing, drawing on a Saturday Evening Post painting of boys playing gunfights and a New York Times television study, and linking American media to atrocities in Korea as reported by the WIDF commission in which Trees Sunito-Heyligers took part. Cold War p

GA-03571 1951-08-14 Somogyi Néplap rel C

Somogyi Néplap, 14 August 1951: WIDF Korea commission, Trees Soenito Heyligers

Hungarian-language press, 1951: WIDF Korea commission, Trees Soenito Heyligers

Hungarian county daily Somogyi Néplap, 14 Aug 1951 (snippet only). Lists the officers of the WIDF commission on Korea: the secretary from Czechoslovakia and, as deputy, Trees Soenito Heyligers of the Netherlands. The catalogue treats her as the Trees Sunito later named as Njono's defence counsel; that identification, a

GA-02827 1952 WIDF rel C licensed

Message to the Executive Committee of the WIDF (1952): Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive message 1952: Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna

WIDF Executive Committee message (1952) calling women worldwide to prepare for the Congress of the Peoples for Peace, Vienna, 5 December 1952, and to demand an end to the Korean war, arms reduction, banning of atomic and bacteriological weapons, and a Pact of Peace. Signatories include Eugénie Cotton and others; Darmin

GA-02440 1953-03-04 rel C licensed

Labor Party Cites Women's Efforts (FBIS, 4 Mar 1953)

FBIS, 4 March 1953: Labor Party cites women's efforts (Korean Workers' Party decision for International Women's Day)

FBIS-monitored Pyongyang radio text (4 Mar 1953) of a Korean Workers' Party Central Committee decision for International Women's Day: praises Korean women in the war, calls for wartime production and vigilance. One line lists the 'awakened democratic women of India, Indonesia' and others in the WIDF-led struggle (WIDF

GA-00886 1956-03-19 De Waarheid rel C

Lilly Wachter (portret, De Waarheid 19-3-1956)

Lilly Wachter portrait: West German delegate at the Dutch Women's Movement congress

De Waarheid, 19 Mar 1956, p. 3: profile of Lilly Wachter (West Germany), attending the NVB congress for the WIDF. Recalls the 1951 WIDF commission to Korea, in which Trees Sunito-Heyligers represented the NVB, and how Wachter was jailed 25 days and fined 12,000 marks after signing its report blaming US forces. Sunito a

GA-00963 1985-06-17 De Waarheid rel C

Potsdam (over de deling van Korea)

Potsdam (on the division of Korea)

De Waarheid piece (17 Jun 1985, p.5) on the origin of Korea's division at the 38th parallel after Potsdam and the Korean War. It recalls CPN opposition to Dutch participation and quotes Trees Sunito-Heyligers, who visited Korea in 1951 with a twenty-woman international delegation and wrote 'Wij beschuldigen'. No Indone