•“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...”