1933-34, The
‘Wilderness’ Year
•June 1934 – Meets US Press Baron, Randolph Hearst at his Welsh Castle, St. Donats, Cardiff – invited to meet again in St. Simeon, California.
•In Oct 1934 Gareth sets-off on ‘Round the World Fact-Finding Tour’, intending to visit Japanese-occupied Manchuria.
•Jan 1st 1935 – Personally commissioned by Hearst in California, to repeat his 1933 famine observations; in series of 3 articles & given carte blanche to write some of the most vitriolic, but heart-rending attacks on the Stalinist regime.
