[On reading Gareth’s diary note of when he met Duranty in Moscow (on the same day as he met Foreign Commissar Litvinoff), then he was perhaps not surprised to have been denigrated by Duranty in the New York Times:]

March 19.

Met Litvinoff.

Duranty said:
“Save Face – Third International down & out – quiet.”

“I don’t trust Duranty. He still believes in Collectivisation. “