THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION IN THE FAR EAST

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Delegates attending the first session of the Council of the Women's Internation-
al Democratic Federation (1tE[DF) in Paris during February 1947 were:
Albania : Mrs. Nexhmije i tox'ria
Algeria: Mme0 Alice Sportisse
Austria : Mrs, Baumgarten
Brazils Mrs. Alice Tibirica
Bulgaria: Mrs. Abramova
China: Miss TSAI Chang ('Ise LI Fu-chw:i)
Cuba: Mrs,, Lolo Soldevilla
Czechoslovakia: Mrso Znezka Hodinova
,ms. Horakova
Mrso Trojanova
France: Mrs. Dian:ent
Mrs. Francoise Louise Leclereq
Mrs. Jeanette Vermeers ch (rife of Maurice Thorez )
Greece: Mrs,, Joannides
Hungary : Mrs. Boris Fai
India : Mrs o Handoo
Mrs. :dia Kanuga
Italy: Mrs, Ravera
Mrs. Romita
Mexico: Mrs. Jimanes Espcrida
Palestine: M. Polak
Poland: Mrsa Dluska
Mme. Eugenia Praguerova
Mrs. Dr. Irena Sztacholska
Portugal: Mrs. Martins
Rumania*. Mrs. Ga]line
Mrs. Ana Pauker
Spain: Mrs 4, Victoria Kent
Sweden: Mrs. Andrea Arsdgren
Trieste' Mrs. Smokovitch
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'CONTR,C-L - UR. Of the gro?ap the following members. were identified s
Marne. S: sans Berk-rand (Bernard), representing the coordinating committee
of ~he WIDE,
Mme. Ta,.3ra Marakova (Morozova), representing the Soviet Women's Anti-
R-1 mist Committee,
Mrs. Z,? Jar Brandt, member of the Congress of American Women.*
Talithi Gerlach, secretary of the World.:ide division of the YWCA?
Agnes Smedley.
Dr. M Ti y Miles(Pat Miles), nee Barrett, a British delegate and a
U 9m$unist,
Eileei Joyce Haworth, an ex student in England.
In the earl] part of 1948 the paxty, led b brae. Simone Bertrand toured
India, Burgh and Malaya.
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60 At the second. Congress of the WUDF which took place in Budapest during
the first week of December 1948, certain important decisions were made
relative to the intensification of WIDF activity in the Far East, The
links between the WIDF and the women of Asia had been strengthened and
six new affiliations had been made in India, Pakistan, Burma, Malaya,
Siam and Israel. In addition, contact was made for the first time with
women's organizations in the Philippines, Ceylon and Cyprus 0 The number
of organizations in Asia affiliated with the WIDF now totals thirteen.
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Part of the proceedings of the second Congress held in Budapest was dea-
voted to a preliminary discussion of a proposed conference to be held
in Asia. It was decided that the Conference of the Women of Asia
should be held as soon as possible, at least before September 1949,
and there was a general desire that it be held in China. A Prepara-
tory Committee,, representative of all member groups of the WIDF in Asia
was set up and within it a Working Committee. One of the Secretaries of
the WIDF will also sit on this Committee which will go to the country
chosen as the venue of the Conference two months before the opening,
date. Each country participating in the Conference will set up a Nat-
ional Committee which will undertake a campaign to ensure support for
the Conference. In addition, a propaganda campaign on an international
scale will be started to give the Conference publicity.
8. The WIDF wishes to contact the women of Asia who have not been brought
into the WIDE` fold 0 These include Japan and Afghanistan, and in the
fiddle East, Turkey and Iraq. The conduct of the campaign to extend
the scope of the WIDF is to be entrusted to a new special section to be
known its the" Internationa l Commission of the Women of Asia and Africa" 0
A small working committee of the Commission composed of members from
China, Viet Nam, France, Egypt, Iran and the USA is already functioning
in Paris, Other countries have been asked to appoint delegates who will
work in their respective countries and make reports to the committee in
Paris,
9. The "International Commission of the Women of Asia and Africa has o'b-
vious]y been designed to parallel the "Bureau of Students Fighting A-
gainst Colonization" which was set up by the International Union of
Students and the World Federation of Democratic Youth. The Bureau of
Students Fighting Against Colonization was set up to coordinate the
activities of anti "Imperialist" youth movements in the countries to
which Russia and her satellites have no direct and easy access.
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# Comment. Mrs. Brandt claimed to represent the New
School of Social Research in Nev, York.
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