WIDF: A Compilation of Available Basic Information

=== [PDF page 1] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 PSS. WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION (WIDF) A Compilation of Available Basic Reference Data -- Affiliates and Parallel Organizations, Strength, Officers, Addresses, Publications. Based on Data Available as of 1 October 1956 Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 2] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRATIC FEDERATION (WIDF) A. Headquarters Address: 13, Unter den Linden Berlin W 8, East Germany B. Regional Offices: None CG. Total Claimed Membership Strength: Affiliates in 76 countries and "links with women leaders and organizations in 13 other countries." (April 1956) "More than 200 million women in 80 countries...participated together with the WIDF, either as members, or in cooperation with and support of the activities of the organization," (April 1956) D, Official Publications: Women.of the Whole World, official’monthly since 1946 News in Brief, published periodically by the Secretariat Special Information Bulletin, published periodically since 1955 Information Bulletin, published irregularly Documents and Current Events, published irregularly hy the Secretariat Radio-Press Bulletin, published by the Secretariat on an ad hoc basis Miscellaneous WIDF propaganda literature, ranging from publication of regularly issued special periodicals publicizing upcoming events or posteevent activity to leaflets and reports of the events themselves, Sea Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 3] === Approved For Releas@?8eee@@iiitieilic |A-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 D, Official Publications: (Continued) Special brochur es on special topics; such as: I Want To Live » Ban Atomic Weapons, a pamphlet Children in Franco Spain, a pamphlet For Their Rights As Mothers, Workers, Citizens, a pamphlet That They May Live - African Women Arise, a pamphlet The Women ot Viet-Nam Speak To Us, a folder Ha Childre Children Com in New China, illustrated folder First, illustrated folder about children in the USSR The Appeal of'the Japanese Women to Ban the Atom Bomb, issued in 23 languages We Accuse, R eport of the WIDF Investigative Commission to Korea, issued in 23 languages, E, Executive Officers of the WIDF* Exe cutive Committee (1955 = ) President: Vice Presidents: Secretary General: Eugenie COTTON (France) Prof, Erzebeth ANDICS (Hungary) Dr. Andrea ANDREEN (Sweden) Pushpamoyee BOSE (India) Monica FELTON (Great Britain) Branca FIALHO (Brazil) Raicho HIRATSUKA (Japan) Dolores IBARRURI (''Republican" Spain) Ransome KUTI (Nigeria): Ceza NABARAWI (Egypt) Nina POPOVA (USSR) Marie-Claude VAILLANT«COUTURIER (France) Lilly WACHTER (Germany) Angiola MINELLA (Italy) Assistant Secretaries General: Simone BERTRAND (France) Zoya IVANOVA (USSR) * See pages 3439 for a complete list of the WIDF Council and Control Commission elected by the last WIDF Congress (June 1953). ** In April 1956 peer ecestena ROSSI replaced Rita MONTACNA™A of Italy as Vice_Presi Approved For Reloase 3000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 ulinleemniteeniimniiion === [PDF page 4] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 E. Executive Officers of the WIDF: (Continued) Secretaries: YANG Yuneyu (China) GREAT BRITAIN (two undesignated representatives) BasiA: Hay yadesis nated representative) Other Executive Committee Members: Margarita de PONCE (Argentina) Francoise LECLERC (France) Officers of the Permanent International Committee of Mothers (1956-1957) President: Dr, Andrea ANDREEN (Sweden) Secretary:; Mrs, Dora Russell GRACE (Great Britain) F,. Regional Officers: None G. National Affiliates of the WIDF, or Parallel Organizations: Affiliates * Parallel Organizations aes 1. ALBANIA a. Union of Albanian Women aka Albanian Women's Union (or League) (Bashkimi i Grave te Shqip#ris#) * In view of the fact that the WIDF has not published a complete list of its affiliates for many years and has also failed to identify by name the organizations that have been admitted to membership each year, the above list may contain some inadvertent omissions or inacturacies,. ** Parallel organizations are those whichhgenerally support the objectives and activities of the WIDF but which are not definitely known to be formally affiliated with such organization, eee Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 5] === Approved For Release 0090/08/27 CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 1, ALBANIA (Continued) (June 1955) President: Vita KAPO (1955) Publication: _Woman of the New Albania Claimed oT Over 246, 000 2. ALGERIA a. Union of Algerian Women (Union des Femmes d'Algerie) 3. ARGENTINA a. Union of Argentine Women (Union de Mujeres Argentinas, UMA) Publication: (Our Women (Nuestras Mujeres) Chairman: Margarita de PONCE General Secretary: Fanny EDELMAN Vice President: Irma OTHAR Director, Nuestras Mujeres: Matilde ALEMAN Note: Nuestras Mujeres, a. Women's Commission of the Movewhich had stroulated clan- ment for the Democratization and destinely prior to the down- Independence of the Trade Unions fall of the Peron regime, Secretary: Irma OTHAR (1956) claimed an increase in its circulation from 12, 000 b. Women's Cultural Group to 25,000 in December '55, (Agrupacion Cultural Femina) after the change in government had permitted its free circulation. However, in March 1956, the UMA complained that "under c.Council of Childhood of Argentina (Consejo de la Infancia Argentina) police pressure, the shop d.Federation of Communist Women where the magazine was (Federacion de Mujeres Comunistas) printed refuses to handle the job and 80 do all other ¢.Jewish Section, League of the Rights printshops in the capital of Man and elsewhére.'"' UMA claims it is still being published f. Junta of Victory despite "extremely difficult SaGeee> Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 6] === Affiliates 3. ARGENTINA (Gontinued) 4, AUSTRALIA a. Union of Australian Womena. Acting Secretary: Enid HAMPSON (1956) 5. AUSTRIA Democratic Union of Austrian Women (Demokratischer Frauen Bund Oesterreichs) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Parallel Or ganizations Union of Spanish Women in Argentina (Union de Mujeres Espanolas en la Argentina) Associations for the Rights of Children (Asociaciones por los Derechos mage cho mmitt ees Union of Gafe, Hotel and Restaurant Workers of New South Wales Women's Committee of the Watereside Workers Federation a, Austrian Society for the Defense of Children Note: Formed in Autumn 1951 (April 1952) Secretary: Irma SCHWAGER (1955) Publication: Women's Voice (Stimme der Frau) 6. BELGIUM a. Union of Belgian Women = a4. (Union des Femmes Belges) Publication: Women In Life (1946) (Iémmes dans la Vie) See Assembly of Women (Rassemblement des Femmes) aka Women's Assembly for Peace and Progress President: Mrs, Francine LYNA (1956) Vice Presidents: Jacqueline VALKENIERS (aka VALKENEERS, VALKERNES) Mme. BURGOS Secretaries: Jeanne MULLIER Oo, BERGHMANS Marie GUISSE Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 7] === ry ath Approved For Release 7: C Affiliates 7 BOLIVIA 8 BRAZIL ae Women's Federation of Brazil (Federacgao de Mulheres do Brasil, FMB) President: Branca Dune ant General Secretary: GQ TO Arcelina, MOCHEL 2 98 55). Rabo Almeida 956). Publication: Momento Feminino (Women's Movement), a monthly Directress: Arcelina MOCHEL 6 67é Editorsin«Chief: Ethel DE SOUZA Address, Editorial and Administrative Office: Av. Nilo Peganha no, 12, 3/426 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Claimed strength: Branca Fialho, the FMB President, told the WIDF Council Meeting in April 1956 that the FMB had organized "70 new women's groups in Brazil" in the period -RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Parallel Organizations Association for the Rights of Women (Asociacion Pro Derechos de la Mujer) Democratic Circle of Bolivian Women (Circulo Democratico de Mujeres Bolivianas) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 8] === teehee Approved For Release 200008 2 Leaabaldiy RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Affiliates 8, BRAZIL (Continued) since July 1955. It has affiliates in the various States, such as: (1) Federation of Women of Pernambuco (Federagao de Mulheres de Pernambuco, FMP) (2) Women's Federation of the State of Sao Paulo (3) Women's Federation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul 9, BULGARIA a. Committee of Bulgarian Democratic Women Parallel Organizations (Komitet na Demokratichnite Bulgarski Zheni) aka Committee of Bulgarian Women Chairman: Secretary: Tsola DRAGOICHEVA Tzevetana KIRANOVA Association of Democratic Women of Pernambuco (Asociacao de Mulheres Demo~# craticas de Pernambuco, AMODP) Women's Unions (Uniaos Femininas) aka Democratic Women's Unions Note: Set up in various locales in Brazil. Women's Department of the Brazilian Association for the Defense of the Rights of Man Brazilian Committee for a Latin American Women's Conference /Note: In addition to the above; there are also many "parallel" ‘Women's Leagues" and "House« wives! Unions" in the various cities and States of Brazil. / Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 9] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 5S eee Affiliates Parallel Organizations BULGARIA (Continved) Publication: Today's Woman (Zhewnta Dness) Editor: R, TODOROVA Note: This Committee succeeded the Popular Union Woman in 1950, of Bulgarian May be identical with Bulgarian Women's Alliance Claimed strength: 170,000 (1947) May be identical with National League of Claimed strength: 10. BURMA ae Burma Women' Bulgarian Women 250,000 (1946) s Freedom League aka All-Burma Women's Freedom League b. All»Burma Women's Congress Note: Went undergound in 1948; may no longer i. CAMEROONS ae Democratic Union of Cameroon Women (Union Democratique des Femmes Camerounaise 9g) exist. a. All-~Burma Women's Union Note: Underground organization; believed to be operating clandestinely,. b. Chinese Women's Association May be identical with ce Burma Overseas Chinese Woman's Association a. Committee in Defence of Children Claimed strength: Active sn Doualla, in the interi Note: Outlawed in August 1955 An VOUS, an Me Ate TIOE and in MaritimeSanaga i April 1952 goo gign APE ma ‘Uisele Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 lee === [PDF page 10] === Approved For Release 2@@QiRibtlnigGA;RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 12. CANADA a. Congress of Canadian 4. Canadian Committee of Mothers Women b. Committee for the Rights of Canadian Publication: Women's Voice, Children aka a monthly, published in National Children's Committee Toronto Secretary: Mrs. Margaret FERGUSON Executive Officers: Mrs, Hazel WIGDOR d. Mrs, Nora RODD FresidettMra. Rae LUCKOGK &Sons and Daughters of Canadian Note: Has branches in various cities of Canada, Women's Committee for Peace Action Canadian Congress for Peace Lithuanian Mutual Benefit Society Publication: Liaudies Balsas Associationof Canadian Housewives 13. CHILE a. National Committee for Feminine Unity (Comite Nacional Feminino de Unidad, CNFU) aka Women's Unity Committee b. Movement for the Emancipation of Chile of Chilean Women Leader: Julieta CAMPUZANO (Movimiento ProeEmancipacion de la Mujer de Chile) a. Union of Spanish Women of Chile (Union de Mujeres Espanolas de Chile) c. Federation for the Protection of Chiidhood. (Federacion pro Defensa de la Ninez) Chilean Committee for Latin American Women's Conference President: Lia LAFFAYE (1956) €+ Chilean Women's Union See Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 11] === Semaine | Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Affiliates 14, CHINA (COMMUNIST) a. All-China Democratic Women's Federation (Chungehua Ch'uan=-Kuo Min-Chu Fu-Nu Lien-Ho-Hui) Claimed strength: Has affiliated branches in cities throughout | China Address: 25 Shih Chia Hutung Peking, China Publications; Women of China, an English quarterly Women Workers of the New China, an illustrated publication President: TS'AI Chiang (April 1956) Honorary President: HO Hsiang-+ning Vice Presidents: TENG ‘Yinp-chtao HSU Kuaug-p'ing Li Teoh hom SHIH Liang possibly identical with Parallel Organizations Shanghai Housewives! Federation Claimed strength: Over one million (1951) National Committee of the YWCA of China General Secretary: TENG Yu-chih (1956) Women's Temperance Union of China President: LIU Wang-~li ming National Committee for the Defense of Children General Secretary: KANG Keeching (1956) Deputy General Secretary: CHANG Shu-eyi Chinese Women's Association President: LI Te-~ch'tan National Federation of Chinese Women Secretary General: CHANG Chiin-ch-in (1955) Director, Children's Department: 15. COLOMBIA Union of Colombian Women (Union Colombiana de Mujeres) Approved For Release CAL CIAa. Ciainied Sheengtrr B80" 2 °38'committees (March 19 Colombia Women's Alliance aka Democratic Association of Colombian Women Publication: Our Women (Nuestras Mujeres) Editor: Maria OSORIO (1956) Committee on Children Association Antonia Santos [Unreadable] === [PDF page 12] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27 _- Affiliates -RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 11 Parallel Or ganizations 16, COSTA RICA Alliance of Costa Rican ae Children's Committee Women (Comite de la Infancia) (Alianza de Mujeres Costarricense) Claimed strength: 500-(1956) General Secretary: Luisa GONZALES Executive Committee Member: Adela Ferreto Segura DE SAENZ Publications: Our Voice (Nuestra Voz) Women's World (Mundo Femenino) 17. CUBA a. Committee of Mothers for Peace __ Claimed strength: Over 334 set up by.. June 1953 to oppose sending troops ae Democratic Federation of to Korea (June 1953) Cuban Women 18, CYPRUS (Federacion Democratica b. Woman's Permanent Council de Mujeres Cubanas, FDMC) for the Security and Happiness possibly identical with of the Home National Committee of Cuban (Consejo Permanente de la Women. Mujer por la Seguridad y la Felicidad del Hogar) aka Permanent Council of Women for the Happiness of Children c. Daughters of Mariana Grajales (Hijas de Mariana Grajales) d. Committee in Defense of Children a. Pan«Cyprian Organization a. Women's Committee for Cyprus of Democratic Women (Pankypria Organosis b. Demokratikon Yinekon) aka Union of Democratic Women aka Pan-Cypriot Congress of Mothers in Defense of Children Pan-Cyprian Union of Democratic Women aka Democratic Organization of Cypriot Women Note: Banned December 1955 Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 13] === Approved For Re@keii@etQOQl03/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Affiliates 19, CZECHOSLOVAKIA a. Committee of 12 Parallel Or ganizations Czechoslovak Women (Vybor Ceskoslovenskych Zen) Chairman: Anezka HODINOVA-SPURNA (1956) Secretaries:Tana Address: Panska 7 Prague Il, Czechoslovakia Publications: TUMOVA; Milena KRALOVA Czechoslovak Woman, an illustrated monthly Editor «in~Chied: Olga HILLOVA Printed at Dobrovskeho 27, Prague VII Vlasta, a maga zine for women Director: Zdenka ZIMOWA may be identical with Czech Democratic Women's Union 20. DENMARK a. Danish Democratic Women's a, Federation (Danmarks Demokratiske Kuindeforbund, Democratic League of Danish Women Danish Committee of Communist Women Note: May no longer exist under DDK) aka this name, Note: In 954 many branches of the Claimed strength: Has branches DDK formed Film Clubs for children, in virtually all the cities of directed by parent-teachers com- Denmark mittees. In Copenhagen, one branch President: Ruth HERMANN claimed 1,500 children as members, Publication: We Women (Vi Krinde$Pe© cember 1954) 21, ECUADOR 22. EGYPT Union of Women of Guayas (Union de Mujeres de Guayas) a. Union of Women a. Egyptian Feminist Union Leader: Ceza NABARAWI (1956) may be identical with b. Federation of Democratic Women of Egypt Vice President: Ceza NABARAWI Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00916R990600140010-9 eee === [PDF page 14] === Approved For Release 200 Dip Slrtalarialerhlbnk® DP78-00915R000600140010-9 13 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 23, FINLAND a. Finnish Women's Demo~ ae The Best for Children cratic League (Parasta Lapsille) (Suomen Naisten Demokraattinen Liitto) aka Democratic Union of Finnish Women Claimed strength: Has local branches throughout Finland Publication: New Women (Uusi Nainen) President: Anna NEVALAINEN (1955) Hella MELTI (1956) Note: Organize free one and two week summer holiday camps for mothers, children and old people from poor families. 24, FRANCE ae Union of French Women a. French Committee for the Defense (Union des Femmes Fran- of Children aka caises) may be identical with Nati entical | President: Eugenie COTTON {attgnal Committee in Defense of (1956) ure Secretary General: Note: Formed in 1951 (April '52) Claudine CHOMAT (1956) b. Association of Families of the Vice Presidents: Executed Jeanne MAUCHAUSSAT (1955) (Association des Familles de Francoise LECLERC (1955) Fusilles) Executive Committee Members: (October 1955) ce Union of Catalan Women in France Elise FRAYSSE Marie«»Claude VAILLANT«d, War Widows COUTURIER (Amicale des Veuves de Guerre) Lucienne MAZELIN Marie PERROT e. Women Friends of Peace Carmen BOISSOT (Amies de la Paix) Secretary, Peace Committee: Madeleine MORET f, Italian Women Publications: (Femmes Italiennes) (1) Shining Hours of French ‘Women, a monthly, ge Unified Socialist Women (Heures Claires des (Femmes Socialistes Unifees) Approved For Release 2000) 8/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 15] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27; CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 oon 14 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 24, FRANCE (Continued) Femmes Francaises) h. Union of Greek Women in Editor-in-Chief: Gilberte France DE JOUVENEL Administratrix: Renee BENEZET ji, Union of Polish Women in Editorial and Admininstrative Office may be identical with Address; 12 Bis, rue d'Astorg j. Polish Women Paris 8°, France (Femmes Polonaises) Publicity Address: 10 rye de Chateaudun k, Women's Committee Against Paris 9€, France the Rebirth of German Mili- Claimed circulation: About 80, 000 tarism aka copies per month (1955) Committee of French Women (2) French Women (Femmes Against German Rearmament ¥rancaises), published weekly aka Claimed circulation: About Women's Committee Anti-« 133,000 copies (1955) German Rearmament (3) Life of the Union of French Women (La Vie dé l'Union des Femmes Francaises) Note: The Union of French Women (UFF) gives special one and two-week training courses throughout France: One-week courses are held for secretaries of local UFF committees and twoeweek courses for active members of county UFF committees "to raise the|/level of organization to the polit« ical requirerments" of the UFF, In April 1956 the UFF announced the twelve new UFF committees had been set up and 257 new members gained in the Gard Department, b, Union of Spanish Women in France Note: Has branches in Thiviers and Lourdes ane Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 16] === Approved For Release 29008/27_.CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 15 Affiliates Parallel Or ganizations 25, GERMANY (EAST) as Democratic Union of German Women aka Democratic Women's League of Germany (Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands) aka German Women's Movement President: Ilse THIELE (1956) Vice. President: Wilhelmine SCHIRMER#jPROESCHER Secretary: Lucie EGGEBRECHT (1956) Publications: (1) Today's Woman (Die Frau von Heute), SATCRSMANN; Urge. Eee TERS RUT ESRF TCE 13s 6) (2) Learn and:Act (Lerner und Handeln) Editor: Hilda MEULENAERS (1956) Note: Has branches throughout East Germany 26, GERMANY (WEST) a. Association for the Equality of Women (Iptexesse foeqesin® chaft fuer die West German Women's Fe.ace Movement (Westdeutsche Frauenfriedens» bewegung, WFFB) Secretary: Millie BAUER (1956) a. Union for Protection of Children a. Union of Democratic Women bh. in West Germany aka League of Democratic Women of Germany (Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands) Executive Committee Members: President: Lilli WAECHTER Prof. Dr. Klara-Maria (1956) FASSBINDER Executive Committee Members: Elli NOWAK-HANEY (1956) AngelaeAntonie GRIESEMANN Angela-Antonie GRIESEMANN Note: Has branches throughout Friedel LEDWOHN West Germany Elli NOWAK-~HANEY Presidert: Maria SCHUTTE (156) Claimed strength: 15,000 c. Germany Women's Party (1953})Has branches throughe (Deutsche Frauenpartei) out West Germany Publication: d, German Society for the Protect» Today's Woman, a forte ion of Children nightly (Deutsche Gemeinschaft zum (Die Frau von Heute) Schutze der Kinder) aka Approved For Release 2000/08/2 IA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 17] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Affiliates 26. GERMANY (WEST) (Continued) 27. GOLD COAST 28 GREAT BRITAIN 29. GREECE SP eee 16 National Assembly of Women a. Chairman: Monica Felton Honorary Secretary: Freda GRIMBLE National Committee Members: Dora RUSSELL Beatrice Lily KING Publication:| Women Today, a monthly Note: Has branches throughout Great Britain Claimed, str paghh: 350 brandwes e. Democratic Union of Greek Women (Probably outlawed) General Secretary: Roula KOUKOULOU eee eB Parallel Organizations Association for the Protection of Children aka Communal Interest Groups for the Defense of Children Note: Has branches in various cities, Publication: Contributions on Youth Problems, a paper President: Dr, Rarbara SCHARMANN (1956) Women's Association Secretary: Miss Christina WILMOT (1956) British Committee in Defense of Children aka Mother's Committee British Peace Committee Federation of Women for Peace aka Women's Peace Federation Feminine Committee, USSR» Great Pritain National Association of South Croydon Women Panhellenic Union of Working Women Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 18] === Approved For Release 2000/08 Le febabbalel) P78-00915R000600140010-9 17 Affiliates Parallel Organi.zations 30. GUATEMALA a. Guatemalan and Pan-American a. National Council in Défense Feminine Alliance of Children (Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca y Panamericana) aka Guatemalan Feminine Alliance (Alianza Femenina Guatemalteca) Note: May be operating clandestinely probably identical with b. Federation of American Women, Bloc No, 2 (Bloque no, 2 de la Federacion de las Mujeres de las Americas) 31, HONG KONG a. Hong Keng and Kowloon Women's Fraternity Association 32. HUNGARY ae Democratic Union of Hungarian Women (Magyar Nok Demokratikus Szovetseg, MNDSz) Note: According to a Budapest radio broadcast of May 21, 1956, the Hungarian ''women's movement will in the future work within the framework of the PPF" since the stage has been reached where women's problems have "outgrown the framework" of the MNDSz,. The MNDSz's "fusion with the PPF has become expedient partly from the point of view of simplifying guidance and partly from the point of view of broadening the work of the common cause." President, National Council of Hunsearian Women (formerly the National Praesidium, MNDSz): Mme, Istvan VASS (May 1956) Chief, International Relations: Julia PAUNCZ (January 1956) Chief, Cultural Section: Mme. Nandor SEBESTYEN (Jan. 1956) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 19] === Approved For Release POO0S (272 CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 18 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 32 HUNGARY (Continued) Vice President: Erzsebet ANDICS (January 1956) Mme, Laszlo ERDEI Mme, Kalman SZABO Julia TURGONYI Head of Section for Children's Broadcasting: Mme, Andras Kisnee Gabriella CHOHANY (1956) Publications: (1) Hungarian Women, official organ dither in-Ghie® Julia PAUNGCZ (January 1956) en's Journal (Nok Lapja}, official organ Editors (1956) talin OSVAT Maria ZSIGMONDY The MNDSz had local branches throughout Hungary. Note: 33. ICELAND a. Union of Icelandic Women for Culture anc Peace (Menningar Og Fridarsamtok b, Kuenna) may be identical with b. Iceland Women's Committee for Peace (Fridarnefnd Kuenna) Ce Committee for the Protection Note: If not identical, affilix of Children ation cannot be confirmed, Address: Reikavik, Iceland a. Housewives Section of Soviete Iceland Cultural Society Women's Section of Icelandic Communist Party (Kuenfelag Sameiningarflokka Althydusosialistaflokksinn) cilioiol Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 20] === Approved For Release 2900/08/27 -CiASRDP78-00915R000600140010-9 19 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 34, INDIA a. National Federation of Indian a. Indian Committee in Defense Women of Children President: Pushpamoyee BOSE (1955) b. Women's Organization of Vice Presidents: (1956) Pondicherry Dr, LAXMI (Madar Sangam, Pondicherry) Kulsum SAYANI President: Mme, ANGAMMAL Honorary Secretary General: Secretary: Mme, Saravasti D. N. BALIYA (1955) SUBBIAH Secretaries: (1956) Claimed strength: 'There are Mme, HAJRAJ Begum 12 committees in the various Anusuya GYANCHAND communes of the former Council Members: Pondicherry territory." Mme, SAFIA Begum Note: Madar Sangam is affili- Mme. K. DHINPA ated with the National Feder~ Claimed strength: 100,000 (1954); ation of Indian Women, a Has branches in various WIDF affiliate. provinces throughout India. b. Women's Self Protection (Defense) c. Lok Istri Sabha. Association Note: A women's organiza-~ (Mahila Atma Raksha Samity, MARS) flop in the Punjab claimed Note: has local branches throughout village committees in 8 India. districts, (August 1953) 35, INDONESIA a. Indonesian Women's Movement a. Foundation for Welfare and (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia = Children GERWANI) Claimed strength: February 1955: 281,000 April 1956:. 565,147 President: Mme, Umi SARDJONO (1956) Vice President: Mme, Suharti SUWARTO b. International Women's Union (or Club) (Note: This organization was in existence in 1950; current status not known) neg Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 21] === Approved For Relegge 20G0l0eia/: CIA- 20 Affiliates 36, IRAN a. Organization of Iranian ae Women aka Women's Organization of Iran Publication: Women's World (Jahan~ieZanan), a weekly b. 37. IRAQ 38. ISRAEL Union of Demo ae in Israel aka b. Israeli Federation of Democratic Women Secretary: Emma TAIMI (1956) President: Ethel KLINGFR (1955) Be cratic Women (Irgun Hanashim Haprogresiviyoth) Note: RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Parallel Organizations Democratic Organization of Iranian Women aka Union of Democratic Iranian Women Tudeh Women's Organization Natimal Chidren's Committee aka Iranian Association for Protection of Children aka Society for Protection of Children “per of NE str. gneth: olarge nur = re, yP in villages and districts. " Association for the Defence of the Rights of Iraqi Women (Rabitat al~Difa aleHuqug al Marah) aka Iraqi Women's League in Defence of Women's Rights Director: Fatima AHMED (May 1956% b. Organization of Women of Iraq Note: Probably banned in 1949 Israel Mother's Committee Committee for the Defense of Children in Israel Organization of Progressive Women Histradut Women Workers Organization In November 1955 the Council expressed a desire to affiliate with th: WIDF. S (lillie Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 22] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27 _CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 21 Affiliates 39. ITALY a. Union of Italian Women ae (Unione Donne Italiane) President: Maria-Maddalena ROSSI Founder and Honorary President: Rita MONTAGNANA (1955) Publication: We Women Parallel Or gani zations National Committee in Defense of Children Note: This might be a subsidi» ary of the Union of Italian Women Editor-in-Chief: Antonietta MACCIOGCCHI Editor: Claimed strength: 1953: 1,000,000 1955° Grazia CESARINI (March 1956) 2,300, 000! 80,006 members claimed in Reggio Emilio alone 40. IVORY COAST 41, JAPAN Federation of Japanese Be Women's Organization (Fujin Dantain Rengo, FUDANREN) President: Raicho HIRATSUKA (1956) bs Note: This Federation was established in April 1953 and claims to represent women from Ce different social backgrounds (i.e. 'women workers, office girls, mothers, wives of d. workere, and farmers" and women intellectuals) in "over Ivory Coast Women's Commite tee President- Ma BAMBA (1956) Note: This Committee is attempting to set up different organizations or women's move+ ments in the Ivory Coast, All-Japan Youth and Women's Council (Zen Nippon Seinen Fujin Kaigi) Housewives League (Shufu Rengokai) Association of Japanese Women for Peace National Committee for the Defense of Children Secretary: Raicho Approved uF Retéaee eb antaie7URRDP78-00915R000800140010-9 quae === [PDF page 23] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 eee eee 22 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 41, JAPAN (Continued) This Federation was organ~ e. Korean Democratic Women's ized "tat the initiative of League in Japan women's organizations repre~ (Zainichi Chosen Minshu sented" onthe Council of Josei Domei) Women's Organizations who “were eager to unite the f, National Mothers' I iaison women's peace front" after Society the split * the Council of Women's Organizations, ge Society for Protection of Japanese Children (Nippon Kodomo Wo Mamoru Kai) aka Japanese Association for the Protection of Children Secretary: Mme, Natsu KAWASAKI 4955) h. Women's Democratic Club (or Association) (Fuji Minshv Kurabu) (Affiliated with FUDANREN) Publications Women's Democratic Newspaper (Fujin Minshu Shimbun) a weekly i, Committee of Japanese Women for Opposition to Rearmament j»- Japan Women's Democratic Council (Nippon Minshu Fujin Kyo gikai) Publication’ Women's Mani-~ festo (Fujin Sengen), pubes lished every 10 days (1953) Note: May be identical with or part of FUDANREN Geet Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 24] === Approved For Release 20 OOS AL itelA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 23 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 42, JORDAN a. Federation of Women of Jordan b. Democratic Association of the Women of Jordan 43, KOREA (NORTH) a. Korean Democratic Women's a. Korean Women's Democratic League Youth League (Choson Minju Yosong Ch'ong Vice Chairman: Lee Kyorig Hui Tongmaeng) Chairman: Pak Chong»ae b. Korean National Committee (aka Pak Den Ai) (1956) for the Protection of Children Vice-Chairman: Kim En Su (1956) Claimed strength: 2,000, 000 (1953) 44, KOREA (SOUTH) a. South Korean Democratic Women's League Note: Believed to have merged with the North Korean Democratic Women's League. Probably exists in name only. 45, LEBANON a. Lebanese League of Demo» a. League of Women's Organi-~ cratic Women zations in J.ebanon gratiyah aleLibnaniyah) iyyah fi an«Nadwah al Lubnan» may be identical with iyyah) b. League of Lebanese Women President: I.aure TABIT (1956) Secretary: Marie TABET Vice President: Alan RIHAN Note: Has branches in various Secretary: Fatimah DA'UG districts of Lebanon enue Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 25] === Approved For Release 2@@@s@Gs@immierlA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 24 Affiliates LEBANON (Continued) ce League of Women's Rights b. aka League for the Rights of Lebanese Women Honorary President: Mme. Souraya ADRA (1956) Secretary: Marie TABET(1955) Executive Committee: Linda MATTAR (1956) 46, LUXEMBOURG a. Union of Women (L.' Union des Femmes Luxem« bourgeoises) President, Kayl District: Marie THOMMES (1956) 45. Luxembourg ae 47, MADAGASCAR 48. MARTINIQUE a. Union of Martinique Women Parallel Organizations Association for the Defense of Children aka National Committee of Children Women's Peace Movement Solidarity Committee of Madagascar (Union des Femmes Martiniquaise) 49. MEXICO a. Democratic Union of ae Mexican Women (Union Democratica de Mujeres Mexicanas) General Secretary: Paula MEDRANO Note: Has branches throughout Mexico. ene Union of AntieFascist Spanish Women in Mexico Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 26] === Approved For Release 2@9@#@@s@aeingald\ -RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 25 Affiliates Parallel Or ganizations 50. MIDDLE CONGO a. Confederated Unions of the Middle Congo 51, MONGOLIA (OUTER) ae Women's Council of Mongolia aka Council of Mongolian Working Women aka Union of Mongolian Women aka Hural of Mongolian Women 52. MOROCCO ae Union of Moroccan Women (Union des Femmes du Maroc) 53, NETHERLANDS a. Netherlands Women's Move= a. Women's Peace Movement ment (Nederlandse Vrouwen Beweging, NVB) General Secretary: Ghairman: Maria Elisabeth LIPS-OQDINOT Secretary: Johanna Molin GERRITZE Publication: Women for Peace and Reconstruction (Vrouwen Voor Vrede en Opbouw) Claimed circulation: over 15,000 (1953) Claimed strength: Has branches throughout Holland, 54, NEW ZEALAND a. Woren's Union of New Zedanml aka New Zealand Women's League Publication: Women for Peace, a magazine (Jane 1953) Approved For Release 20Q@Q/A26aeeeue@tlf RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 27] === Approved For Release 2000 27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 26 Affiliates Parallel Or ganizations 55. NIGERIA a. Union of Nigerian Women President: Mme, Ransome KUTI (1956) may be identical with b,. Federation of Nigerian Women's or eemtzations Claimed strength 100,000 (1956) 56. NORWAY ae Union of Norwegian Women (Norsk Kuinneforbund) aka Norwegian Women's Federation President: Birgit SCMIOTZ (June 1956) Note: In May 1954 the Norwegian Democratic Women's Union merged with the Union of Norwegian Housewives! Societies to form the Union of Norwegian Women Publication: Women at Home and Abroad (1955) 57. PAKISTAN a. Purba Pakistan Mahila ae Samiti (Sought affiliation in 1948) Association of West Pakistan Women Secretary of Propaganda: Miriam SHAH (July 1956) b. Organization of Women for Peace 58. PARAGUAY a. league for the Rights of Women (Liga pro Derechos de la Mujer) 59, PHILIPPINES, THE a. National Women's I -eague Note: Was operating clandestinely Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 28] === Approved For Release 2009/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 27 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 60, POLAND a. Polish Women's League a. PAX (a Catholic organization) (Liga Kobiet) aka Member, Executive Committee: League of Polish Women Mme, Stefania Chairman: SKWARGZYNSKA Alicia MOUSIALOVA (1956) Head, Foreign Department of Central Board: F, STODOLSKA (May 1956) Secretaries, Central Board: (May 1956) H., DWORAKOWSKA I, ASZKENAZY J. TJUZONCOWA Zofia MATEJCZYK Deputy Chairman: Marta SIJALKOWSKA (October 1955) 61, REUNION ISLAND a. Union of Women of Reunion 62. RUMANIA ae Democratic Women's Committee of the RPR (Comitetul Femeilor Democrate) aka Rumanian Women's Committee President: Stela ENESCU (June 1956) Leader, International Section: Constantza STAN (June 1956) Publications: (L) Women in the Rumanian People's Republic, illustrated monthly published in English, (2) Information Bulletin (3) Working Weman (Dolgozo No), Cluj review (4) Peasant Woman Editor-in-Chief: Maria CIOCAN (1953' Claimed strength: 1,500,000 (1948) S eee - T Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 29] === Approved For Release 2000) Affiliates 63. SENEGAL a. Senegal Wo : CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 28 Parallel Organizations men's League aka Union of Senegalese Women (Union des Secretary: 64, SPAIN (A clandes b. See FRAN 65. SWEDEN Secretary: Publication (Vi KVINNOR), a monthly Note: Has branches throughout Sweden, Union of Swedish Women (Svenska Kvimors Vansterforbund, SkVy) Femmes du Senegal) Mme, Bineta DIOP (June 1956) Union of Spanish wen tine group a. National Committee for the Defense of Children Claimed strength: Has committees "all over the Valborg SVENSSON(1956) We, The Women Two Stockholm affiliates are ''The Four leaf Clover'' group and the "Dove of Peace" group. probably identical with b. Swedish Women's Leftist Federation (Svenska Kvinnors Vansterforbund) 66. SWITZERLAND a. The Federation of Swiss ae Popular Feminine Movement Women for Peace and Pro«# of Geneva gress (Frauenskommission « Mouvee (Federation) des femmes ment Populair Feminin) suisses pour la Paix et le Progres) b. "8th of March'"' Movement of President: the Canton of Vaud Nelly BETTEX (1956) Secretary: c. Women's Association for Social Charlotte MURET (1956) Progress in Zurich Publication: President- Feminine Horizons Lotte Humbelin (1956) (Horizons Feminins) Editor: oinette STAUFFER (1955) Note: ‘Founded in September 1952 under the auspices and with the support of the WIDF." Claimed strength Active in various Swiss Approved Fdt*Rel === [PDF page 30] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: -RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 29 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 67. SYRIA a. League of Syrian Women a. Syrian Women's League for (Jamiyat an-Nisa asSuriyah) probably identical with b. Union of Syrian Women President: Mme, Adela BATHAM (August 1956) 68 TIBET 69. TRINIDAD queen! the Protection of Mothers and Children aka Syrian Women's League for the Defense of Children and Mothers aka League of Syrian Women for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood Syrian Children's Committee League of Syrian Nationalist Women for the Defense of Peace Child Protection Society aka Child Welfare Society League of Democratic Women Note: Headquartered in Damascus and attempting to organize female students. Lhasa Patriotic Women's Association Women's Auxiliary to the Oil Workers Union General Secretary: Pearl BRANCHE (February (1956) Note: Established in March 1952 Claimed strength 1,435 (June 1953) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 31] === Approved For Relggse 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 30 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 70, TUNISIA ae Union of Tunisian Women (Union des Femmes de Tunisie) Secretary: Ben MILAD (June 1956) a. National Committee in Defense of Children 71. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA a. Women's League, African National Congress President: Lilian NGOYI (September 72, URUGUAY 1956) a. Union of Uruguayan Women (Union Feminina del Uruguay) aka Women's Union Secretary: Mme, Celia MIERES (1953) b, a. Union of Anti«Fascist Spanish Women | (Union de Mujeres Anti« of Uruguay fascistas Espanoles) Union of Spanish Women in Urueuay (Union de Mujeres Espanolas en el Uruguay) possibly identical with b. National Feminine Union aka Feminine Union National Coordinating Commit« Secretary’ tee for Combating of Harmful Mme, Celia Mieres (1953) Children's Literature of Uruguay Co 73. USSR a. Soviet Women's Committee (Formerly known as the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women) zhenshchin) President: Nina POPOVA (1956) General Secretary: Lidia PETROVA (1956) Vice President: Nadezhda PARFENOVA (1956) S ~cialeitelieclee Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 32] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27 | -RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 31 Affiliates Parallel Organizations 73, USSR (Continued) Publication: ( May 1956) Soviet Woman (Sovetskaya Zhenshchina), published monthly in English, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Russian Address, Editorial Offices: Kusnetski most 22 Moscow, USSR Editor-in-Chief: M. OVSIANNIKOVA (1956) Spanish Editor: E. VOLF (1956) English Editor: M, V. DOBROSELSKAYA Assistant Editor -in~Chief: M, Z YANCHUK Editorial Board: L. V. DUBROVINA T, A, FADEEVA (aka T. A. FADEYEVA) A, A. KARAVAEVA (aka A, A. KARAVAYEVA) S. LEBEDEVA (aka Z. A. LEBEDEVA) N. A, MURAVIEVA (aka N, A. MURAVYOVA) N. M, PARFENOVA (aka N. M. PARFYONOVA) I, M. TOIDZE Illustrated Section: I. DOLGOPOLOV Technical Editor: N, PETROVA 74, VENEZUELA a. National Women's Union of a. National Children's Committee Venezuela (Comite Nacional del Nino) (Union Nacional de Mujeres de Venezuela) 75. VIETNAM (NORTH) Committee for the Defence of a. Vietnam Women's Union ae (Hoi Lien-hiep Phu-nu Vietenam) Mothers and Children of Vice President: Bui Thi Cam Nam-bo (October 1956) Central Committee Members- b. Association of Soldiers' Nguyen Khoa Dieu Hong Mothers of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Thap Note: Organized throughout Claimed strength: 3,000,000 (1956) Vietnam (June 1953) Approved For Release 2000S 2 lnnbaldbalintd P78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 33] === Approved For Release 2000/0812 iA DP78-00915R000600140010-9 76. 77. 78. Affiliates 32 Parallel Organizations YUGO SLAVIA MNote: The Organization with the CPSU policy after the Tito»Cominform rift. conforming the request decision and Organization of severalGf its members, WIDF Council expelled its Yugoslav affiliate ~~ the of Yugoslav Women «« in November 1949, in line Now, again to the current CPSU-Yugoslav CP rapprochement, the WIDF Council, at its meeting in Peking‘n April 1956"... at "examined its previous ".«.srecognized that this decision was unjust." It “unanimously decided to revoke it, " As of August 1956, the of Yugoslav Women had not accepted the WIDF invi« tation to reaffiliate 7 UN DESIGNATED AFFILIATIONS The WIDF Council, elected by the World Congress of Women in June 1953, included reserved "slots" from Peru, for undesignated members Thailand and Trieste and designated the following members from Portugal: Maria SILVESTRE, Julia COSTA, Ester DURSO and Helena SA, Itis, therefore, assumed that the WIDF has an unidentified affiliate and/or parallel organization in each of these countries, ADQENDUM Since the preparation of the above listing, the following "parallel'' organizations have also been identified. BRITISH G a. Women's Progressive Organization (Note: Formed in 1953) b, Peace Committee of British Guiana FRENCH GUINEA a. Committee of Young African Girls in Paris HONDURAS a. Women's Section, Democratic Revolutionary Party of Honduras Approved For Release 2000/00 ce neTA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 34] === Approved For Release 2000/03/22, ClAsBDP78-00915R000600140010-9 33 Parallel Organizations JAMAICA a. People's Educational Organization, Youth Movement LAOS ae Women's Organization Claimed strength: Branches in all localities where a "Front" organization existed, (June 1953) b. Associations of Mothers of Fighters (or Soldiers) Claimed strength: Associations throughout the country (June 1953). c. Young Girls’ Leagues Note: Organized in villages (June 1953) MALAYA a. Association of Malayan Women PORTUGAL a. National Council of Portuguese Women b. Portuguese Women's Association for Peace SUDAN a, Sudanese Women's Association aka Union of Sudanese Women Claimed strength: 400 (1955) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 35] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 34 H,. Members of the WIDF Control Commission and Council: WIDF Control Commission * June 1953 m= ) Members: Irma SCHWAGER (Austria) Jeanne MULLIER (Belgium) Antonia TUMOVA (Cze choslovakia) Ann Treasurer: JOHN (The Netherlands) Dida MIHALCEA (Rumania) WIDF Council * According to the provisions of the WIDF Constitution, each national affiliate of the WIDF designates its candidates for Council Membership or Deputy Membership on the basis of the total national population figures: one member and one deputy per affiliate from each country whose population does: not exceed 5 million; two members and two deputies per affiliate from each country whose population does not exceed 30 million; three members and three deputies per affiliate from each country whose population does not exceed 75 million; four members and four deputies per affiliate from each country whose population does not exceed 140 million; and five members and three deputies per affiliate from each country whose population exceeds 140 million, The Council is elected by the WIDF Congress from a slate of candidates submitted] by each national affiliate, The Control Co mmission members are named by the Congress from the Council members who are not members of the Fxecutive Commits tee, The above-listed officers of the Control Commission and Council will continue to serve in their designated capacities until the next WIDF Congress meets and reelects new members. The last WIDF Congress was held in Copenhagen, June 1953, Seniesa Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 36] === Country Albania Algeria Argentine Australia Austria Belgium Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria Burma Canada Chile Commun st Chim 35 WIDF Council (Continued) Members Nexmije HOXHA Abassia FODIL Fanny EDELMAN Margarita DE PONCE Betty REILLY Irma SCHWAGER Dr, Maria SUBIK Jeanne MULLIER (reserved) (reserved) Branca FIALHO _ Arcelina Mochel GOTO Edy Duarte PEREIRA Tzola DRAGOITCHEVA Vera NATCHEVA Day Khin CHIT Rae LUCKOCK Nora RODD Mercedes FUENTEALBA TS'AI Chiang TENG Ying-ch‘ao LI Te-eh'tan. HSU Kuang-p'ing SHIH Liang ohuuitenigusionisenie Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Approved For Release 2000/03 (2faalsb’ -RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Deputy Members Vita KAPO Baya ALLOUCHICHE Irma OTHAR Zulma NUNEZ (reserved) Ida FLOCKINGER Grete SCHUTTE « LIHOTZKY Mariette VAN BALLAERT Marie GUISSE (reserved) Elisa BRANCO 847/574 Paulina d'AMBROSIA Nuta Bart#let(- JAMES Rada TODOROVA Anastasia VYLKOVA Day Khin HLA Blanche GELINAS Agnes JACKSON (reserved) LU Ts'ui TS'AO Meng'!chtn. YANG Yuneyu === [PDF page 37] === Country Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark Ecuador Egypt Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Guatemala 36 WIDE Council (Continued) Members Ismenia de MUJICA Maria de MATA Edith GARCIA Buchaca Candelaria RODRIGUEZ Mrs, Andoulla G. CHRISTOFOROU Aneska HODINOVA«~ SPURNA Irena DURISOVA Ruth HERMANN Alba Calderon de GIL Ceza NABARAQUT Silvi Killikki KILPI Eugenie COTTON Marie-Claude Vaillant COUTURIER Juliette DUBOIS Ilse THIELE Lilly WACHTER Edith BAUMAN Monica FELTON Molly MANDELL Roula KOUKOULOU Rosa IMVRIOTI (reserved) Approved For Release 2Q@0/0827..CiA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Deputy Members (reserved) Luisa GONZALFS Celia MACHADO Nila ORTEGA Mrs. Kioula ZIARTIDOU Ana SLECKTOVA Ruzena ZAHRADKOVA Alvilda LARSEN (reserved) (reserved) Irma TORVI Francoise LECLERC Gisele JOANNES Andree MARTY=s CAPGRAS Marie TAUBERT Helga DICKEL (reserved) (reserved) Avra VLASSI Vayo VOURNA Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 38] === Approved For Release 20Q0/08/27.,,Gl Asmat P78-00915R000600140010-9 37 WIDF Gouncil (Continued) Country Holland Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan Korea Lebanon Luxemburg Members Gre BLOKKER Rie LIPS Erzsebeth ANDICS Elizabeth VASS Edith ERDEI Sigribur Hiriksdottir VALDEMARSSON Renu CHAKRAVARTY Bibi SAKUNTALA (3 reserved) SUWARTI ASIJAH (2 reserved) Mariam FIROUZ Djamile SADIGHI Fatima AHMED Ruth LUBITCH Rita MONTAGNANA Maria Maddalena ROSSI Rosetta LONGO Angiola MINELLA (reserved) (reserved) Layla KHALIL Rosa WEISS Scanner Deputy Members R, KOGENHOP A, JOHN Irene MANUSHNIC Marget VOIDAN Dora Vigfusdottir ANDRESSON Provabati Debi SARASWATI Bibi Sant KAUR @l reserved) SUHARTI (2 reserved) Akhtar KIANOURI CHARMINI (reserved) (reserved) Teresa NOCGE Elena CAPORASO Ada ALESSANDRINI Marie TABET Marie DOUVEN Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 39] === Approved For Release, 2000/03/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Country Madagascar Malaya Mexico Mongolia Morocco New Zealand Nigeria Norway Pakistan Peru Poland Portugal Rumania Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria 38 WIDF Council (Continued) Members (reserved) Che SAMSIAH Mireya B, de HUERTA Paula MEDRANO' Udval SONOMEN (reserved) Alice HARRIS Ransome KUTI Sigrid Narup GUNDERUD (reserved) (reserved) Fugenie FR AGUIFROVA Alicia MUSIALOVA Maria SILVESTRE Julia COSTA Stella ENESCU Dida MIHAI-CEA Dolores IBARRURI Andrea ANDREEN Valborg SVENSON Charlotte MURET Mouna FOUAD nee Deputy Members HSIEH Jen#’shen Paula Gomez ALONSO Sorocco BURCIAGA Lemach NORCINE (reserved) (reserved) Gudrun EIVINDSON Jatazkuvna MEHALINA Vanda K, JAKUBOVSKA Ester DURSO Helena SA liana RECHANU Maria MORANU Elisa URIZ Elizabeth TAMM, Margit LINDSTROM Lotte HUMBELIN (reserved) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 40] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 S aalinleitatelaiele 39 WIDE Council (Continued) Country Thailand Transjordan Trieste Trinidad Tunisia Uruguay U.S.A, U.S.S.R. Venezuela Viet Nam Yugoslavia Members Deputy Members (reserved) (reserved) Samira HAYDER Lameese AYYOUB (re served) (reserved) (reserved) Celia MIERES (reserved) (reserved) Nina POPOVA Zoia TUMANOVA Zinaida GAGARINA Lidia KUKARENKO Nadejda PARFIENOVA Kulipa KONDUCHALOVA Lidia PETROVA Galina GOROCHKOVA Argelia Laya de (reserved) MARTINEZ HOANG Thaf Le Thanh-ha LE Minh-hien Vera LUITCH (reserved) Bosilka MARIANOVICH Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 41] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 S qdinteeniieniieie Sautneniieniiene Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 grat os: a === CORRECTED KEY PASSAGES (proof-read by Claude, Oct 2026) === --- [page 19] --- (Fridarnefnd Kvenna) Committee for the Protection of Children Note: If not identical, affiliation cannot be confirmed. Address: Reykjavik, Iceland a. Housewives Section of Soviet-Iceland Cultural Society Women's Section of Icelandic Communist Party (Kvenfelag Sameiningarflokks Althydu Sosialistaflokksinn) [Unreadable] Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 20] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 19 Affiliates | Parallel Organizations 34. INDIA a. National Federation of Indian Women President: Pushpamoyee BOSE (1955) Vice Presidents: (1956) Dr. Kulsum SAYANI; Honorary Secretary General: D. N. BALIYA (1955) Secretaries: (1956) Mme. HAJRAJ Begum; Anusuya GYANCHAND Council Members: Mme. SAFIA Begum; Mme. K. DHINPA Claimed strength: 100,000 (1954); has branches in various provinces throughout India. Note: Madar Sangam is affiliated with the National Federation of Indian Women, a WIDF affiliate. b. Women's Self Protection (Defense) Association (Mahila Atma Raksha Samity, MARS) Note: has local branches throughout India. Parallel organizations: a. Indian Committee in Defense of Children b. Women's Organization of Pondicherry (Madar Sangam, Pondicherry) President: Mme. ANGAMMAL Secretary: Mme. Saravasti SUBBIAH Claimed strength: "There are 12 committees in the various communes of the former Pondicherry territory." c. Lok Istri Sabha Note: A women's organization in the Punjab claimed village committees in 8 districts (August 1953). 35. INDONESIA a. Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerakan Wanita Indonesia, GERWANI) Claimed strength: February 1955: 281,000; April 1956: 565,147 President: Mme. Umi SARDJONO (1956) Vice President: Mme. Suharti SUWARTO b. International Women's Union (or Club) (Note: This organization was in existence in 1950; current status not known) Parallel organization: a. Foundation for Welfare and Children [Unreadable] Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 21] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 20 Affiliates | Parallel Organizations 36. IRAN a. Organization of Iranian Women aka Women's Organization of Iran Publication: Women's World (Jahan-e Zanan), a weekly Parallel organizations: a. Democratic Organization of Iranian Women aka Union of Democratic Iranian Women b. Tudeh Women's Organization National Children's Committee aka Iranian Association for Protection of Children aka Society for Protection of Children 37. IRAQ a. [Unreadable] Association for the Defence of the Rights of Iraqi Women (Rabitat al-Difa' 'an Huquq al-Marah) aka Iraqi Women's League in Defence of Women's Rights Director: Fatima AHMED (May 1956) b. Organization of Women of Iraq Note: Probably banned in 1949. [Unreadable] "[Unreadable] of NE str[ength]: a large number [Unreadable] in villages and districts." 38. ISRAEL a. Union of Democratic Women in Israel aka Israeli Federation of Democratic Women Secretary: Emma TAIMI (1956) President: Ethel KLINGER (1955) b. Organization of Progressive Women (Irgun Hanashim Haprogresiviyoth) Note: In November 1955 the Council expressed a desire to affiliate with the WIDF. Parallel organizations: Israel Mothers' Committee Committee for the Defense of Children in Israel Histadrut Women Workers Organization Democratic Women [Unreadable] [Unreadable] Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 --- [page 37] --- Edith GARCIA Buchaca Candelaria RODRIGUEZ Mrs. Andoulla G. CHRISTOFOROU Aneska HODINOVA-SPURNA Irena DURISOVA Ruth HERMANN Alba Calderon de GIL Ceza NABARAOUI Silvi Killikki KILPI Eugenie COTTON Marie-Claude Vaillant-COUTURIER Juliette DUBOIS Ilse THIELE Lilly WACHTER Edith BAUMANN Monica FELTON Molly MANDELL Roula KOUKOULOU Rosa IMVRIOTI (reserved) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 Deputy Members (reserved) Luisa GONZALES Celia MACHADO Nila ORTEGA Mrs. Kioula ZIARTIDOU Ana SLECKTOVA Ruzena ZAHRADKOVA Alvilda LARSEN (reserved) (reserved) Irma TORVI Francoise LECLERC Gisele JOANNES Andree MARTY-CAPGRAS Marie TAUBERT Helga DICKEL (reserved) (reserved) Avra VLASSI Vayo VOURNA Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 38] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 37 WIDF Council (Continued) Country | Members | Deputy Members Holland: Gre BLOKKER; Rie LIPS | R. KOGENHOP; A. JOHN Hungary: Erzsebeth ANDICS; Elizabeth VASS; Edith ERDEI | Irene MANUSHNIC; Marget VOIDAN Iceland: Sigridur Eiriksdottir VALDEMARSSON | Dora Vigfusdottir ANDRESSON India: Renu CHAKRAVARTY; Bibi SAKUNTALA (3 reserved) | Provabati Debi SARASWATI; Bibi Sant KAUR (1 reserved) Indonesia: SUWARTI; ASIJAH (2 reserved) | SUHARTI (2 reserved) Iran: Mariam FIROUZ; Djamile SADIGHI | Akhtar KIANOURI Iraq: Fatima AHMED | CHARMINI (reserved) Israel: Ruth LUBITCH | (reserved) Italy: Rita MONTAGNANA; Maria Maddalena ROSSI; Rosetta LONGO; Angiola MINELLA (reserved) | Teresa NOCE; Elena CAPORASO; Ada ALESSANDRINI Japan: (reserved) | [Unreadable] Korea: [Unreadable] Lebanon: Layla KHALIL | Marie TABET Luxemburg: Rosa WEISS | Marie DOUVEN [Unreadable] Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 39] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 38 WIDF Council (Continued) Country | Members | Deputy Members Madagascar: (reserved) | [Unreadable] Malaya: Che SAMSIAH | HSIEH Jen-shen [Unreadable] Mexico: Mireya B. de HUERTA; Paula MEDRANO | Paula Gomez ALONSO; Sorocco BURCIAGA Mongolia: Udval SONOMEN | Lemach NORCINE Morocco: (reserved) | (reserved) New Zealand: Alice HARRIS | [Unreadable] Nigeria: Ransome KUTI | [Unreadable] Norway: Sigrid Narup GUNDERUD (reserved) | Gudrun EIVINDSON Pakistan: (reserved) | [Unreadable] Peru: (reserved) | [Unreadable] Poland: Eugenie FRAGUIFROVA; Alicia MUSIALOVA | Jatazkuvna MEHALINA; Vanda K. JAKUBOVSKA Portugal: Maria SILVESTRE; Julia COSTA | Ester DURSO Rumania: Stella ENESCU; Dida MIHAI-CEA | Helena SA[Unreadable]; Iliana RECHANU; Maria MORANU Spain: Dolores IBARRURI | Elisa URIZ Sweden: Andrea ANDREEN; Valborg SVENSON | Elizabeth TAMM; Margit LINDSTROM Switzerland: Charlotte MURET | Lotte HUMBELIN Syria: Mouna FOUAD | (reserved) (The assignment of names to countries in this table is reconstructed from the OCR's list order and is uncertain where marked [Unreadable].) Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 === [PDF page 40] === Approved For Release 2000/08/27: CIA-RDP78-00915R000600140010-9 39 WIDF Council (Continued) Country | Members | Deputy Members Thailand: (reserved) | (reserved) Transjordan: Samira HAYDER | Lameese AYYOUB (reserved) Trieste: (reserved) Trinidad: (reserved) Tunisia: [Unreadable] Uruguay: Celia MIERES (reserved) [Unreadable]