•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 – allowing Wostwag to continue to ‘operate covertly’ & trade profitably without
hindrance.
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•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 interview in Moscow…