•Gareth immediately
penned two articles for the Cardiff Western
Mail published on Oct 15 & 17, 1932
to highlight the tragic
situation entitled; “Will there be
Soup?”
•In line with his Welsh
Non-Conformist beliefs & virtues; Gareth decided to make a trip to view the conditions firsthand.
•On 23 February 1933,
Gareth became the first foreign journalist
to fly with the newly appointed German Chancellor (& afterwards dining privately with
Goebbels…)
–He prophetically wrote in the Western Mail:
– “If
this aeroplane should crash then the whole history of Europe would be changed. For a few feet away sits Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany and leader of the
most volcanic
nationalist awakening which the world has seen.”