ANTI-FASCIST WOMEN’S FRONT IN YUGOSLAVIA

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1944, Page 7

ANTI-FASCIST WOMEN’S FRONT IN YUGOSLAVIA

A Berne dispatch reports: The Anti-Fascist Women’s Front in Yugoslavia was formed at its first National Conference in December, 1942. To-day this organisation counts more than half a million women, both from liberated and temporarily German-occupied districts. Yugoslav patriots of all nationalities and faiths have rallied around this organisation. Thousands of these women are fighting in units of the People’s Liberation Army, working as nurses, organising assistance in the rear of the Yugoslav Army, etc. Starting in January, 1943, the Anti-Fascist Women’s Front began publishing the magazine “Women Danas” which is to-day widely circulated on liberated territory. Women’s journals appearing also on Croatian territory are: one in Lika, one in Kordum, two in Slavonia, one in Dalmatia, one in Goronksko Kotor, on the remaining territory of Croatia. The Slovenian people formed the Slovenian anti-F'ascist Women’s League, whose activities are not confined to helping the People’s Liberation Army only. Its District Rural Committees constitute big support to the Local Committees of the Liberation Front.