•“The first reliable report of the Russian famine was
given to the
world by an ‘English’ journalist, a certain Gareth Jones, at one time secretary to Lloyd George. Jones
had a conscientious
streak in his make-up which took him on a secret journey into the Ukraine and a
brief walking tour through its countryside.
•That same streak was to take him a few years later
into the interior
of China during political disturbances, and was to cost him his life at the hands of Chinese
military bandits. An earnest and meticulous little man, Gareth Jones was
the sort who
carries a note-book and unashamedly records your words as you talk. Patiently he went from
one correspondent to
the next, asking questions and writing down the answers...”