•“The
first reliable report of the Russian famine was given to the world by an ‘English’ journalist, a
certain Gareth Jones, at one time secretary to Lloyd George. Jones had a conscientious streak in his make-up which
took him on a secret
journey into the Ukraine and a brief walking tour through its countryside.
•That
same streak was to take him a few years later into the interior of China during political
disturbances, and was to cost him his life at the hands of Chinese military
bandits. An earnest
and meticulous little man, Gareth Jones was the sort who carries a note-book and unashamedly
records your words
as you talk. Patiently he went from one correspondent to the next, asking questions and writing
down the answers...”