1933-34,
The ‘Wilderness’ Year
•June 1934 – Meets Randolph Hearst at his Welsh Castle, St. Donats, Cardiff – invited to meet again in St. Simeon, California.
•January 1st 1935 –
Personally commissioned to repeat famine observations for Hearst; given carte blanche to write some of the most vitriolic attacks on the Stalinist regime whilst being equally heart-rending.
