•The
embarrassment to the Japanese by being publicly implicated with Gareth’s murder in Mueller’s
German articles
resulted in effectively no further territorial expansion of their Chinese ‘empire’ until the
‘Rape of Nanking’ in
1937 – allowing Wostwag to continue to ‘operate covertly’ & trade profitably without
hindrance.
•As a likely
‘marked’ enemy of the Soviet State for his Holodomor reporting, liquidation of Gareth by
NKVD operatives
in Inner Mongolia would certainly not have displeased the Moscow hierarchy. And not
least of all, by former
Chekist, Foreign Commissar Litvinov, who clearly was incensed by Gareth’s affront to
embarrassingly expose
the Holodomor ten days after affording him the privilege of a personal interview in Moscow…