“It is terrible in the Kolhoz,” he whispered.  “They took my cows and my horse.  We are starving.  Look what they give us - nothing!  nothing!  How can we live with nothing in our dvor?  And we can’t say anything or they’ll send us away as they did the others.  All are weeping in the villages today, little brother.”

Outside, a horse was tied to a post - one of the worst kept and fed they had ever seen.  Their last mentioned friend said: “That was my horse once; now he belongs to the Kolhoz.  I fed him well, and now look at him - scraggy and dejected.”

Gareth returned to his employment in New York for six months but due to the American financial situation and the World Depression of 1931, he returned to his old ‘chief,’ David Lloyd George in London.  There, unbeknown to many, he assisted the former Prime Minister in writing his War Memoirs.

Gareth Jones’ true ambition was to be a journalist, and he arranged to join the Welsh newspaper, The Western Mail in April 1933.  However, before he left Lloyd George’s employment, in February 1933, he visited Germany and was present in Leipzig the day Adolf Hitler was made Chancellor.  A few days later he was the first foreign journalist to fly with the Dictator to a rally in Frankfurt and on his return to Wales, Gareth Jones wrote his very prophetic article describing not only the flight but also the bleak future of Europe in the 20^th century with respect to Hitler.

In March 1933, Gareth Jones made his third visit to the Soviet Union.  Immediately on his return to Berlin on March 29^th 1933 he revealed to the world, the ‘Holodomor’, the terrible famine-genocide in Ukraine brought about by Stalin’s policy of Collectivisation and Industrialisation.  The Morning Post.  Meanwhile H.H.Knickerbocker reported Gareth Jones’ statement in New York Evening Post Foreign Service, 1933.  Similar statements appeared in the British press including the then Soviet – sympathetic Manchester Guardian.

BERLIN, March. 29th, - Russia today is in the grip of a famine which is proving as disastrous as the catastrophe of 1921 when millions died, reported Gareth Jones of Great Britain, who arrived in Berlin this morning en route to London after a long walking tour through the Ukraine and other districts in the Soviet Union.

Mr. Jones, who speaks Russian fluently, is the first foreigner to visit the Russian countryside since the Moscow authorities forbade foreign correspondents to leave the city.  His report, which he will deliver to the Royal Institute of International Affairs tomorrow, explains the reason for this prohibition.  Famine on a colossal scale, impending death of millions from hunger, murderous terror and the beginnings of serious unemployment in a land that had hitherto prided itself on the fact that every man had a job - this is the summary of Mr. Jones’s first-hand observations.

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