Gareth standing directly behind President Hoover at the White House,
Washington together with the Children of the Revolution, April 23rd
1931. Gareth was an uninvited guest!
Gareth
was aware of the interdependence of the great nations of the world. As David Lloyd George’s Foreign Affairs
Adviser, he would have fully understood the repercussions of the Treaty of
Versailles, which were reverberating more than a decade later. The British Prime Minister was one of its
signatories in 1919, after the Great War. The Treaty was sacred to the French and she was against its
revision. In Germany it had fermented
great bitterness. In an article he
published in The Western Mail
entitled: “The World in Banking Crisis
in 1931” he wrote graphically of how the collapse of the major bank, Credit-Anstalt in Austria, had been sufficient to cause a knock-on effect
resulting in a financial crisis of global proportions - a spark as small as
that which set Europe afire in 1914. He
poignantly wrote: “the rumblings of
disaster have grown more ominous. Japan
has taken advantage of the trouble in Europe to send troops into
Manchuria. The forces of Hitler, the
fascist, have mounted in Germany”. Appearing in The Western
Mail on July 30th 1935, two days after bandits captured
him, was an article by Gareth entitled: “Anglo-American Relations from the Japanese point of view”.