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Eugénie Cotton, Presidente van de IDVF, beschuldigd (WIDF president Eugénie Cotton accused)

WIDF president Eugenie Cotton accused over anti-war poster

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Short De Waarheid item (2 Jun 1950): WIDF president Eugénie Cotton, also head of the Union of French Women, was accused over a poster urging French mothers not to let under-age sons enlist for Vietnam; the paper compares it to Dutch women's action against the Indonesian war and calls for protest letters. No Indonesian women named.

Berita singkat De Waarheid (2 Juni 1950): presiden WIDF Eugénie Cotton, yang juga ketua Union des Femmes Françaises, dituduh terkait poster yang mengimbau ibu-ibu Prancis tak membiarkan putra di bawah umur mendaftar ke Vietnam; surat kabar membandingkannya dengan aksi perempuan Belanda menentang perang di Indonesia dan menyerukan surat protes. Tak ada perempuan Indonesia disebut.

“The Union of French Women called French mothers not to allow their under-age boys to sign up for dispatch to Viet-Nam, as Dutch women act against the war in Indonesia.”

People

Eugénie Cotton

Organisations

Women's International Democratic FederationUnion of French Women

Places

ParisVietnamIndonesia

Topics

WIDF and international women's movementpeace and anti-imperialismNetherlands

Tags

postervietnam solidarity

Details

Date
1950-06-02
Creator
De Waarheid
Publication
De Waarheid
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Dutch
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1950–1954
Source archive
Delpher (KB, Netherlands) · source link
Access
open access (Delpher) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)/De Waarheid (1950-06-02) - Eugénie Cotton Presidente van de IDVF beschuldigd [Delpher ddd-010852562-a0094].txt
OCR / text
Good (0.889) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)
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