JPRS Translations on PRC (1963): Parjani Pradono criticises the WIDF programme

Title: JPRS Translations on PRC (1963) - Parjani Pradono castigates WIDF programme as devoid of revolutionary essence [HathiTrust mdp.39015030770286 seq 553] Source: HathiTrust Digital Library (full view), page OCR text via text-only view Volume: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030770286 Date retrieved: 2026-10-19 Note: page-image download returned 403 (HathiTrust image downloads blocked); OCR text only. Translations on People's Republic of China, 1963 Oct 28-Nov 13. | HathiTrust Digital Library View this item in the Book Viewer Use of this online version is subject to all U.S. copyright laws. Please do not save or redistribute this file. For questions or comments, contact HathiTrust.org at [email protected] You have one page at a time access to this item. Authenticated members of HathiTrust institutions who have a print disability may have full-text access to this item. Login to determine if you have access and see all volumes that are available when searching. For more information, see HathiTrust Accessibility. Page at a time access to this item is also available via our fully-styled HathiTrust interface. Full Bibliographic Information Title Translations on People's Republic of China, 1963 Oct 28-Nov 13. Author United States. Published Arlington, Va.,Joint Publications Research Service; Description v.ill.27 cm. Rights Public Domain, Google-digitized. Permanent URL https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030770286 Page #553 "Never in my life," the Zanzibar delegate continued, "have I attended such an undemocratic conference as this WIDF conference in Moscow! I never thought the so-called progressives could be so mean. used all sorts of tricks in order to have their way.... They "On the 27th we started to work in the committees. Our committee on drafting the general document was to start at 9 a.m., but we had to wait for Mme. Cotton, who did not appear until some minutes past 10. She came there and named the countries that could take the chair. Without seeing whether we agreed or not she left quickly, giving the excuse that she was not well. We shouted our protest in vain. She was well enough to dictate to us, but not well enough to stay even for a minute to hear what we had to say. When another chairwoman took the floor, we told her that we wanted democracy and not dictatorship. There was a tug-of-war between those who wanted to dictate to us and we who wanted democracy. They tried to use lame excuses like respect for age meaning Mme. Cotton and not wasting time, in order to dictate to us. When they found that things were tough for them, they found a way of getting most of us out."... 2. Indonesian women's leader Parjani Pradono castigated the program of the Women's International Democratic Federation, adopted at the recent World Congress of Women, as "devoid of revolutionary essence." She said that the Indonesian women do not agree with this program.... "From the very beginning of the congress the Indonesian delegation was against the Indian women's delegation raising the Sino-Indian boundary question at the congress because we were of the opinion that the congress should not become a platform for the settlement of this question; it should be settled by the two governments concerned. The purpose of the congress was to unite the women of the world to struggle against their common enemy, the imperialists, and for complete democracy, the rights of women and children, national independence and world peace. But the leaders of the congress completely failed to attach importance to our statements. On the initiative of the Indonesian delegation, 18 Asian and African countries issued a joint statement against the Indian delegation's proposal for the congress to discuss the Sino-Indian boundary question." 3. Zahara Ibrahim, secretary of the National Liberation Movement of the Comoro Islands, recalling the recent Women's Congress, charged that this year's congress "served the imperialists." She said that in the course of discussions on the policy and tasks at the congress there appeared a difference between two lines, because people adopted a certain document which had not been accepted by a number of delegates -- namely, a program which renounced opposition to imperialism. The program adopted at the congress regarded universal and complete disarmament and peaceful coexistence as the most important tasks.... Zahara Ibrahim pointed out: "Under the pretext of disarmament, they try to suppress the oppressed 122