Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones
A Selection of his Soviet Diaries, Letters and Articles
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The Show Trial of the Metrovick engineers from April 12th - 19th 1933 was a manufactured act to distract attention from the crisis of the Famine that was devastating the Soviet Union and Ukraine. Six British Engineer and a number of Soviet citizens were accused of ‘wilfully wrecking the Soviet electrical industry and of plotting military espionage and bribery’. Walter Duranty is given pride of place in the front row. He denigrated Gareth by denying there was a serious famine in the U.S.S.R.
Duranty is seated in the centre, Public Prosecutor, Vyshinski is standing and A.J Cummings, News Chronicle is to his right. William Strang, later Baron Strang, First Secretary at the British Embassy is at back of the room.
William Strang Archive,Churchill Archives, Cambridge The accused which included Allan Monkhouse, Leslie Thornton, Gregory, MacDonald, Cushing and Nordwall. The woman among them is Madame Kutuzova. By July all the British accused were released.
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