Umi Sardjono Leads Women Volunteers to DRV Embassy (FBIS Daily Report, 8 Apr 1965, HathiTrust scan)

Title: FBIS Daily Report (1965-04-08) - Umi Sardjono leads women volunteers to DRV embassy [HathiTrust osu.32435063969224] Source: HathiTrust Digital Library (full view, US government work), page OCR text via text-only view Volume: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063969224 Date retrieved: 2026-10-17 Note: page-image PDFs could not be downloaded (HathiTrust temporarily blocked image downloads); OCR text only. Page #251 8 April 1965 NORTH VIETNAM JJJ 12 In the afternoon of 4 April, a group of about 100 women volunteers led by Mrs. Umi Sardjono, president of the Indonesian Women's Movement, went to our embassy and the office of the NFLSV delegation. Most of the volunteer sisters had taken part in the armed struggle for Indonesia's national independence or had had military training. Among them are wives of Comrades Lukman and Sudisman, leaders of the Indonesian Communist Party, and Mme. (Rukiat-3-phonetic), a famed Indonesian writer. In India, 100 Indian students of the Punjab University sent a letter asking President Ho's permission to go and fight in Vietnam. The letter reads: "We, students of the Punjab University, wish to sign up for the volunteer army to go and fight against the criminal imperialist hoodlums and bandits so as to put an end to the U.S. intervention in the Vietnamese people's internal affairs." In the afternoon of 2 April, a delegation of Venezuelan students who are studying in Czechoslovakia met the representative organ of the NFLSV in Prague to express their aspiration to go and fight in the ranks of the South Vietnam Liberation Army in response to the 22 March call of the NFLSV. Fourteen Venezuelan cadres and students of both sexes working and studying in Czechoslovakia have volunteered to go and fight in South Vietnam. These Venezuelan friends revealed that all Venezuelan citizens in Czechoslovakia have saved and contributed an amount of money to buy arms as gifts for the South Vietnam Liberation Army. They all voiced their earnest desire to soon go and fight in South Vietnam. In the evening of 5 April, a delegation of Japanese working and studying in Peking led by Saionji, Japanese peace partisan went to the Vietnam Embassy to express the approval and support of the Japanese in Peking for the Vietnamese people's struggle against U.S. imperialist aggression. Saionji revealed that on 4 April, the Japanese working and studying in Peking held an urgent meeting condemning the Japanese Government for colluding with U.S. imperialism, letting it use its base in Okinawa to carry out aggression against South Vietnam and provocative attacks on the DRV. The meeting set up an action committee to realistically support the Vietnamese people's struggle until final victory. Saionji handed Comrade Hoang Bac a resolution of the meeting addressed to the central committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front to which was attached 1,000 yuan contributed by the Japanese friends to support the Vietnamese people. In the evening of 1 April, all the cadres and working youth (among?) the Vietnamese overseas students in Moscow held a meeting at which they decided to launch among the (Vietnamese?) overseas students in the USSR a "three ready" movement calling for: Readiness to return to their fatherland to join the army and to fight and annihilate U.S. imperialism at their fatherland's first call; readiness to go anywhere and accept any task requested by their fatherland; readiness to surmount all difficulties to fulfill well all the overseas students' tasks. So far, over 100 Vietnamese students who are studying in the USSR have written applications volunteering to return to their fatherland to fight against the U.S. aggressors.