•Summer 1932 – Due to
Depression, Gareth returns to work in London for Lloyd George; ghosting his ‘War
Memoirs’.
•October 1932 – eminent
LSE Professor Jules Menken returns
from USSR (having dined on caviar & drunk fine wines in the Kremlin with Commissars) & tells Gareth
that he; ‘dreaded this winter, when he thought millions would
die of hunger’.
•Gareth immediately
penned two articles for the Cardiff Western
Mail published on Oct 15 & 17, 1932
to highlight the tragic
situation entitled; “Will there be
Soup?”
•In line with his Welsh
Non-Conformist beliefs & British Liberal
views; Gareth decided to make a trip, at his first opportunity to view the conditions first-hand –
otherwise it could be
officially denied.