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Mevrouw Roosevelt antwoordt op beweringen Gerwis (Mrs Roosevelt answers Gerwis's allegations)

Cleaned OCR text (Poor (0.7); proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026)). Old Indonesian spelling has been converted to modern EYD. [Unreadable] marks text that could not be recovered. English translation below.

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[...] op het schriftelijke [verzoek van de] vrouwenorganisatie Gerwis, aangeboden tijdens [haar bezoek] aan Djakarta, [antwoordde] mevrouw Franklin Roosevelt, dat zij zich [Unreadable] met de door de [Gerwis geuite] beweringen, als zouden de Verenigde Naties [Unreadable] bacteriewapens gebruik hebben [gemaakt in] de Koreaanse oorlog. [Zij zei] voorts dat deze [Unreadable] de vrijheid van een [Unreadable]. [Unreadable] evenwel werd [Unreadable] dat er gestreden [werd door] organisaties, welke onder [invloed] staan van communisten. Roosevelt kon ook niet erkennen [Unreadable] de Verenigde Staten en [andere] Westerse mogendheden [Unreadable] verdreven en maakte [Unreadable] Arabieren [Unreadable] overgegaan, op aanraden van [hun] leiders [Unreadable] vertrokken en zij ervoeren dat zij [Unreadable]. Aan Arabische [vluchtelingen] repatriëring [Unreadable] dezer beloften kon voldaan, aangezien [Unreadable] Israëlieten in [Unreadable] Arabische leger [Unreadable] werd overwonnen, [zei] mevrouw Roosevelt, [Unreadable] niet te zeggen dat zij een juiste en spoedige [Unreadable] de Verenigde Naties, [Unreadable] schadevergoeding [Unreadable]. Tevens hoopte zij [Unreadable] tussen [...] [Unreadable] bittere [Unreadable] te elimineren. [Unreadable]

English translation

=== [Page 1] === Mrs. Roosevelt answers Gerwis's allegations [...] the shrill [...] women's organisation [Gerwis], addressed during [her visit] to Djakarta. Lastly Mrs. Franklin [Eleanor] Roosevelt declared that she regretted that some [women] had accepted the allegations, as if the [United States] had used bacteriological weapons in the Korean war. She further said that this [...] the freedom of a [...]. It was however recognised that there had been fighting [...] organisations, which [...] communist [...]. Roosevelt could also not recognise [...] allegations [...] the United States and [other] powers [...] and Arabs [were driven out] [...] had gone over, on the advice of [...] leaders. [...] had not left and they found that they [...]. To Arab [...] repatriation [...]. These promises could be fulfilled, since [...] the Israelis [...] Arab army [...]. Mrs. Roosevelt said that she could not say that she [...] a just and speedy [solution through] the United Nations, [...] compensation [...]. She also hoped to eliminate this bitter [...] between [...]. [Translator's note: the OCR of this article is severely scrambled; only fragments can be read, and the sequence is unreliable.]