Orwell’s
Mr Jones – The Farmer
•One man who didn’t
forget Gareth was George Orwell
in Animal Farm, [who based his
Ukrainian famine chapter on Eugene Lyons’
book ‘Assignment in Utopia’, which he reviewed in 1938].
•Remember Lyons: ‘Poor Gareth Jones must have been the most surprised human being alive when the facts he so painstakingly garnered from our mouths
were snowed
under by our denials.”
•Orwell wrote: “the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease .”
