ACTIVITIES OF COMMUNIST WOMEN IN BELGIUM AND LUXEMBURG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600450014-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: April 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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During 1far^h corturrurist women in Belgium and Luxemburg held demonstrations
.:i-ainst war?
a. 'r he Union of Luxemburg ..:omen met on 6 March at Esch-sur-A1zette to protest
against the war of agression being carried on against the Soviet Union.
ApproxL%ately 500.. ijersons were present W Speaker s included Jean Kill,
director of the co,.sruna st paper, Ze itun who was expelled from Belgium in
-~-y 1937 because of his political activities; Nicolas toes, President of
the Luxemburg Communist Syndicate F,L.A,.; Bmilienne Prunfaut nee Steux, who
was the Belgian delegate to the meeting; Claire Urbar.y, wife of Dominique
Urhany who is Secretary of the Luxemburg Communist P.,rti1; and Yvonne
Useldinger, Secretary General of the Union of Lu.xecb irg ''';omen and the wife
of Addy Useldinger who is deputy and coc=mmunist bu perr roaster of Fsch,
On 8 March Belgian communist ivon.en, acting in the mile of the Group of omen
I. Pie-ce, organized an outing with a radio equipped ca-r. Tha purpose of
the outing, was to collect signatures for a statement protesting the use' of
the atom. boreb and favoring peace, which was to be forwarder: to the United
Nations. From the BCP point of view the outing was a failure because only
'300 signatures were obta .rood, Among those present were Martha Adam, Ames-,'.e
Baetens, Odile Rerghmans, Emilienne Brunfaut nee Steux, Helene Dannau and
Fiore T)ethy,PhotogrE%phs of various ^,emk.ers of the group are ?i,'U"ched.
A congress of the Group of omen for Peace was scheduled for 12 and 13 March,,
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