•The embarrassment to
the Japanese by being publicly implicated with Gareth’s murder in Mueller’s German articles
resulted in effectively no
further territorial expansion of their Chinese ‘empire’ until the ‘Rape of Nanking’ in 1937, arguably the start
of WWII – allowing Wostwag to
continue to ‘operate covertly’, probably supplying weapons to Mao on his ‘Long March’ &
trading very profitably
without hindrance.
•
•As a likely ‘marked’
enemy of the Soviet State for his Holodomor reporting, liquidation of Gareth by NKVD operatives in
Inner Mongolia would certainly
not have displeased the Moscow hierarchy.
And not least of all, by former Chekist, Foreign Commissar Litvinov, who clearly was incensed by Gareth’s
affront to embarrassingly expose
the Holodomor, ten days after affording him the privilege of a personal & private interview in
Moscow…