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Een brief uit Indonesië aan de Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging

A letter from Indonesia to the Dutch Women's Movement (Gerwani reply)

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De Waarheid, 29 Aug 1960, p. 2: publication of Gerwani's reply letter to the NVB, thanking Dutch women on behalf of its 710,000 members for their efforts to prevent sons being sent to West Irian, promising to publish the NVB letter in Indonesia and to keep working for peace. Prefaced by a note recalling Gerwani's telegram and NVB's reply.

De Waarheid, 29 Agu 1960, hlm. 2: pemuatan surat balasan Gerwani kepada NVB yang, atas nama 710.000 anggotanya, berterima kasih kepada perempuan Belanda atas upaya mencegah pengiriman putra mereka ke Irian Barat, berjanji menyiarkan surat NVB di Indonesia dan terus bekerja untuk perdamaian. Didahului catatan yang mengingat telegram Gerwani dan balasan NVB.

“Relevance raised from C: full text of a Gerwani letter.”

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Dutch Women's Movement

Places

IndonesiaWest New Guinea (Papua)Netherlands

Topics

Gerwani organisationWest Irian campaignpeace and anti-imperialismNetherlandsWIDF and international women's movement

Tags

lettermembership figures

Details

Date
1960-08-29
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
1960–1965
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 (1960-08-29) - Een brief uit Indonesië Aan de Nederlandse Vrouwenbeweging [Delpher ddd-010471291-a0025].txt
OCR / text
Good (0.893) · 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)
Summary basis
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