WIDF magazine 1957 report on the WIDF Council meeting in Helsinki, 22-27 June 1957: Finnish hospitality, Palace of Culture built by volunteer labour, reports by Eugénie Cotton, Branca Fialho, Molly Keith and Elisa Uriz, a new draft constitution and call to the Fourth Congress, and resolution on nuclear tests and women'
We Saw and Heard at the Council Meeting, Helsinki 1957: Umi Sardjono for Gerwani
WIDF magazine 1957 'We Saw and Heard at the Council Meeting' with delegate speeches at the Helsinki Council. Umi Sardjono, President of Gerwani (640,000 members), reports a nationwide marriage-law campaign, the 1955 elections (five Gerwani members in parliament, six in the Constituent Assembly, 52 provincial councillor
Pravda, 16 Jun 1957: World Peace Council session in Colombo; Umi Sardjono for WIDF
Keyword-hit excerpt of Pravda, No. 167, 16 June 1957, special-correspondent report from Colombo on the sixth day of the World Peace Council session. Mme (Umi) Sardjono speaks for the WIDF, voicing 'on behalf of the women and mothers of the whole world' protest against plans to unleash imperialist war. Other speakers in
Biographies of National Council members
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad (1957-07-31, p. 3): continued biographies of National Council members. Soerastri Karma Trimurti, representing women's organisations, born Surakarta 1912, teacher-training and economics studies, jailed by the Dutch 1933-36, attended the 1953 Copenhagen international women's congress, and wrote b